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This has been up on Slickdeals for a while now but I think it's good to let ppl know so people don't end up paying when they don't have to.
basically, if you have access to MSDNAA (basically college students only and possibly alumni), Win7 Pro is probably out for you right now. Computer Science majors most definitely have access, while EECS majors most likely do, too! If you're majoring in somewhere no where close to these fields, like English or Philosophy or something, you're out of luck here.
Basically just search for your school then your department
http://www.msdnaa.net/search/schoolsearch.aspx
If your department is listed, then you have access. If you have trouble logging in, you're going to have to find out from your school (ie. find out who the msdnaa program admin is at your school) how to get access. (I personally had to email someone at my school requesting access. I then received an email from MSDNAA with my login and a generated password)
Turns out (this is for the engineering majors who may not qualify), if you join IEEE, you also get access to MSDNAA! And (this is for CS majors) if you join ACM, you get access as well
note: this is the full legit version, NOT beta or release candidate
So yeah, at the moment I'm running a legit Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. For free.
if you have questions, look through these
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=574457&t=1505441
(about IEEE): http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=574457&t=1505729
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this is actually pretty cool. my friends are gonna be happy 
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awesome
time to replace my unlegit version with a legit one
what version is this though, RTM?
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I only get access during the semester and I'm taking off for this fall, boo  .
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On August 19 2009 12:24 blabber wrote:
If you're majoring in somewhere no where close to these fields, like English or Philosophy or something, you're out of luck here.
Funny you should choose both of my majors as examples.... guess i'm out of luck
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So wait, if you know someone who has access to this, can you just use their login and download a copy of Windows 7 (that will work forever)?
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On August 19 2009 13:07 zizou21 wrote:
So wait, if you know someone who has access to this, can you just use their login and download a copy of Windows 7 (that will work forever)?
pass that shit homie g
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is there an expiry date on this one?
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Thanks for the heads up, I kept checking for it but only saw the RC (which is available to everyone and what I'm currently using). Downloading now.
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can somebody share a key? :D
I need a key not the whole thing since I can get it elsewhere ;p.
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oh, snap, my school is there but there's no info on the software center (I mean, there's no link), and In my school website, there's no info either.
I'm fucked .
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@funkie, contact someone in one of your IT departments and ask them about your schools MSDNAA program. Also no one can spare you a key because once you install and register these copies you can't register them twice. Meaning you would have to do something illegal to keep it installed and at that point it would be pointless not to just use a generated key.
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Woah that's cool. My program looks like it's eligible but I haven't actually started school yet so I don't have a username/pass. I don't have a new computer to put it on or anything and I don't really think it's worth the bother or changing my OS from Vista though.
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Cool, thanks for the update.
I'm not going to download it (~2.2gb) but I got two sets of CD keys for Windows 7 Pro and Windows 7 Ultimate.
All you University of Waterloo students get yours too.
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Well it says the business, CS, and eng schools at michigan state have it but i could only find an engineering website to e-mail for access...hopefully they'll still give it to me.
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oh thank you yay for being a cs major
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On August 20 2009 11:39 CorSairHeRo wrote:
beep
It is against forum rules and I suggest you edit your post before a mod sees it.
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my buddy got Windows 7 for free, when he got HIS buddy to fix his CPU up for him.
My buddies buddy can put it on like 10 comps, but I've seen Windows 7 and it looks pretty sweet, but I'm not smart with this stuff so I donno.
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EPT
