On February 05 2009 06:07 Kerensky wrote:
eh how do you get it for free

let alone "free from the university" wth?

paid $100 or something for mine

MSDN Academic Alliance

http://msdn.microsoft.com/sv-se/academic/default(en-us).aspx

Pretty much offers students free downloads for most Microsoft products with the one big exception being the Office bundle. Of course this only works if your school signed up for it MSDN AA. I don't know about Windows 7, but the did offer Vista right after its release.

Athos

United States2484 Posts

February 04 2009 22:25 GMT

#46

Came for free with my computer. I'll never pay for it again. Windows XP to the death baby!

Proposal

United States1310 Posts

February 04 2009 22:35 GMT

#47

I torrented all my Windows. I probably bought one legitimately 5 years ago

Itachii

Poland12466 Posts

February 04 2009 23:00 GMT

#48

nope, never had legal one.

jhNz

Germany2762 Posts

February 04 2009 23:02 GMT

#49

i did and i didn't.
here on my pc i have got home premium which was installed when i bought the computer.
on my laptop i use business, which i downloaded via msdnaal.

Nytefish

United Kingdom4282 Posts

February 04 2009 23:02 GMT

#50

I paid for it on my laptop, but as for the other 10 computers in my house over the years...

Last Romantic

United States20666 Posts

February 04 2009 23:14 GMT

#51

I paid for one copy of Vista, one copy of XP, one copy of Win2K; downloaded a copy of Win2K, and... Win ME

((((

KizZBG

u gotta skate8152 Posts

February 04 2009 23:27 GMT

#52

Downloaded mine when I built my PC.

These days you buy a PC from a store and you don't get a copy of Windows even though you've paid for it. What the hell? Someone explain pls.

armed_

Canada443 Posts

February 04 2009 23:48 GMT

#53

Legal free uni copy(my father's), etc.

On February 05 2009 08:27 KizZBG wrote:
These days you buy a PC from a store and you don't get a copy of Windows even though you've paid for it. What the hell? Someone explain pls.

Stores do give you the CD key for your installation, you just need to get a CD of the correct version if you want to make use of it. Which is way harder than it needs to be.

Night[Mare

Mexico4793 Posts

February 04 2009 23:50 GMT

#54

what do you mean KizZBG?

miseiler

United States1389 Posts

February 04 2009 23:51 GMT

#55

I run linux on all my machines here, so...no.

Technically it came with one of the laptops, so I guess I purchased it indirectly?

KizZBG

u gotta skate8152 Posts

February 04 2009 23:56 GMT

#56

A friend bought a laptop from a major PC store in the UK with Vista installed. He didn't get a Vista installation disk, say if he wanted to reinstall the OS after a format or install it the again after changing the HDD etc. I think he got some recovery disk though if I remember correctly but I don't know exactly what it does. That was it.

Ganfei

Taiwan1439 Posts

February 04 2009 23:58 GMT

#57

Bought it for $5 at my university computer store, they have a deal with Windows to sell this stuff for cheap to students

Racenilatr

United States2756 Posts

February 04 2009 23:59 GMT

#58

Depends what kind of Windows your talking about. I currently am on Windows Vista Eternity 2009 edition atm. Its a "pirated" windows vista that was ramped up by this guy with a ton of modifications made that makes it so much more better. It's for free via torrent :/ So i guess no. I didnt pay for it

MeriaDoKk

Chile1726 Posts

February 05 2009 00:00 GMT

#59

wait, you have to pay for it?

I just dl one of those UE versions. Pretty good so far, and they come with drivers and a loooooooot of programs.

Nitrogen

United States5345 Posts

February 05 2009 00:01 GMT

#60

bought it at fry's!