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

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

Lifer
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?
 
$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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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)
 
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)
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Are academic versions resellable?
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as long as there is someone willing to pay for it, who cares?
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Because legally that's no different from downloading it off Kazaa?

Edit: My school offered any MS software except Office for free. MSDNAA
 
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.
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The "Academic Version" isn't any different than the normal version, is it?
 
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...
 
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.
 
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