Any of you with the $5 copy of XP Pro

nweaver

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he must mean hacked illegal youallgettopaymorecausei'mstickingittotheman version
 

Crusty

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Originally posted by: nweaver
he must mean hacked illegal youallgettopaymorecausei'mstickingittotheman version

No, he means the one that you can get being a student through your school.

I can get any Microsoft product for $5/disc through my school.
 

sourceninja

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its 10 bucks at my school, but I was able to shell out another 10 and get a copy of 64 from my school.
 

Lestargis

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All thee rejoice in your good fortune, for I've never heard of such a discount. That makes me sad.

 

Pr0d1gy

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Originally posted by: Lestargis
All thee rejoice in your good fortune, for I've never heard of such a discount. That makes me sad.

College my friend, it's a beautiful thing...
 

minofifa

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i've never heard of discounts like that at my university. i know we can get academic pricing but it's not that cheap. example, we can get office 2003 for 250 canadian. 5 dollars/disk though? that's wild.
 

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Originally posted by: Pr0d1gy
Originally posted by: Lestargis
All thee rejoice in your good fortune, for I've never heard of such a discount. That makes me sad.

College my friend, it's a beautiful thing...


Where else can you pay 40k/yr and be happy with a 5usd copy of Windows? hehe
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: eggrole1
Originally posted by: Pr0d1gy
Originally posted by: Lestargis
All thee rejoice in your good fortune, for I've never heard of such a discount. That makes me sad.

College my friend, it's a beautiful thing...


Where else can you pay 40k/yr and be happy with a 5usd copy of Windows? hehe

Geez, as opposed to the community college I went to, where everything was manufacturer suggested retail price, PLUS a healthy markup. A product sold for $80 at places like Best Buy, $100 from the manufacturer, would be around $120 at the college bookstore. Even basic supplies like pencils were overpriced there.
But then, it was a community college.
 

islandtechengineers

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awesome student discounts... what schools are those? I've been through a couply of colleges myself (in boston) and have never seen microsoft software that cheap!
 

brandonbull

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While I was in school we were able to download/copy several free MS products. XP Pro, Visio, 2003 .Net Studio and others.
 

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I pay $5/cd for any microsoft product, except for a server OS. Basically I get the license for free, I am just paying for labor/handling of the disc. These aren't Academic versions either, full fledged version. Only thing is that I am only allowed one license per software, so I can't buy 10 copies of XP Pro for $50.
 

santaliqueur

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Where else can you pay 40k/yr and be happy with a 5usd copy of Windows?
why assume that every college costs $40k/year? i pay less than $5k a year (i go to umass dartmouth) and i get microsoft licences, even the server OSes, for free because i am in the college of engineering.

CJ
 

Tarrant64

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UNL here,

$10 bucks here. For office, XP pro. Didn't know they had the 64-bit version out yet.

Will be going to the university to see about that today. ::gets checkbook::
 

squeeg22

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Anyone know if Eastern Illinois Univ. has this deal? My sister gets done with finals this week and I'd like her to pick up a copy before she leaves if they do. The home computer could use an upgrade to XP Pro.
 

ND40oz

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You aren't getting the license for free because you go to the school, you get the license because the school pays a licensing fee for every student/employee to microsoft on a yearly basis. You get charged for this by the school in their "Technology Fees" when you pay tuition. In MD it is called a MEEC agreement, I'm not sure what they call it in other states.

I know when I got my XP copy from UMBC, they gave it to me on a University of MD branded disc, not the normal XP holographic disc.
 

Crusty

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Originally posted by: ND40oz
You aren't getting the license for free because you go to the school, you get the license because the school pays a licensing fee for every student/employee to microsoft on a yearly basis. You get charged for this by the school in their "Technology Fees" when you pay tuition. In MD it is called a MEEC agreement, I'm not sure what they call it in other states.

I know when I got my XP copy from UMBC, they gave it to me on a University of MD branded disc, not the normal XP holographic disc.

We used to get them on on school branded discs, but now everything is given on the MS holographic discs in the sleeves with cd-key on the back.
 

Maluno

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Originally posted by: PorBleemo
Originally posted by: Maluno
Does anybody ever try reselling these extremely cheap disks?

Ever think about being sued into the ground?

I obviously (well apparently not too obviously), was not talking about a massive commercial scam operation here, just students selling them to friends who dont go to college. :D