Collge students: How much did you pay for your MS software?

[Nocturnal]

I know most colleges out there have some really nice going on with Microsoft where you can get Windows XP Academic edition for like $5.00. Or Office 2k3 for like $5.00. Even Adobe software for like $5.00 (I think).

How much did you pay and what school do you attend? Have you bought the max amount of software you're eligible for?

 

[Zenmervolt]

$0.00. It's free here at Pitt.

ZV

EDIT: And it's not "Academic" software, it's plain old volume license as far as I know.

 

[fumbduck]

its free for a lot of the ms software, newer stuff is 5$ per cd.

Example, microsoft office is 1 cd, but its a 6 cd set since 5 cds are tutorials and help and other crap, so you have to pay 30.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
$0.00. It's free here at Pitt.

ZV

EDIT: And it's not "Academic" software, it's plain old volume license as far as I know.

o i c, so how does that work? Why do some schools charge an arm and a leg, say $199.99 for Windows XP Pro, where as some schools give it either free or for like $5.00 a pop? My school sells Adobe Photoshop CS for $299.99. Not bad though, as it's the full version.

 

[Rogue]

We get most of ours for around $60 or so at K-State. I wish it were free, but that's why I go to Microsoft conferences!

 

$45 for Windows XP Pro, Office XP or 2003, and pretty much every other piece of MS software except server versions.

U of M Ann Arbor.

 

[hdeck]

xp pro for $6. office xp for $15 at UT

 

[Atrail]

Price List

 

[Heisenberg]

XP Pro was about $5 and Office XP was $8 IIRC.

 

[Darien]

with MSDN, free.

 

[Scootin159]

for CS Majors:
Everything but Office is free ($199 for office)

For non-CS majors:
Office: $199
XP: $50
(and similar pricing for other apps)

 

[DaWhim]

free officexp
$1.99 for windowxp
nice academic version (I sold it for $20)

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
free officexp
$1.99 for windowxp
nice academic version (I sold it for $20)

Are academic versions resellable?

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: DaWhim
free officexp
$1.99 for windowxp
nice academic version (I sold it for $20)

Are academic versions resellable?

as long as there is someone willing to pay for it, who cares?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: DaWhim
free officexp
$1.99 for windowxp
nice academic version (I sold it for $20)

Are academic versions resellable?

as long as there is someone willing to pay for it, who cares?

Because legally that's no different from downloading it off Kazaa?

Edit: My school offered any MS software except Office for free. MSDNAA

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: hdeck
xp pro for $6. office xp for $15 at UT

 

[bleeb]

pennies for the CDRs. JUST KIDDING.

 

[godspeedx]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
$0.00. It's free here at Pitt.

ZV

EDIT: And it's not "Academic" software, it's plain old volume license as far as I know.

The "Academic Version" isn't any different than the normal version, is it?

 

[MovingTarget]

Here the going rate for M$ software is 1/2 of what retail is. For instance, XP Pro (full version) is $99.99. But of course, most college students either fall into one of two categories from what I have seen. Either they get it when they get their dell (or whatever proprietary heap they get) or they d/l a werez version for the machines they put together themselves. Very few people just go out and buy Windows seperate. The few that do get a decent deal with what is above though. Personally, I'm gonna stick with Gentoo until I can afford to buy even the discounted software...

 

[gopunk]

commoner students here don't get much of a discount, but if you're in computer science & engineering, you get winxp, visual studio and a bunch of other stuff for free because ms donates it.

 

[Corporate Thug]

win xp was like $15
office xp was like $10

 

[pillage2001]

My college sucks.

 

I steal.

 

[machintos]

I paid $7.00 + tax for Windows XP pro and I paid $21.00 + tax for Office XP pro at University of Houston.

 

[bpctech]

i got winxp pro sp1a for $7.