Free stuff from your school

[EniMysterEgma]

I hope this is an apropos board for this.

If anyone here is in college, I recommend exploring your school's student software discount program. I was about to buy windows xp home oem from newegg for 90 bucks, but then I poked around on my school's website and downloaded an .iso of windows xp pro w/sp2 for free. It works perfectly and I have a unique serial number. That would have cost me $140+ on newegg for the oem.

Also, at least at my school, if you want to finance a computer it's much cheaper to do it through the school than through a website. In effect, you can just buy it and take the reciept to the financial aid office and they will reimburse you for the cost of the machine. Then you just have to pay them back at a much lower interest rate, if it's not subsidized already. You can even get a straight discount on the machine if you go through the school. Anyway, I thought it might help.

Edit: Thanks to Myxylplyk for supplying us with the MSDNAA school search.

Originally posted by: Myxylplyk
Here's the Microsoft site to do a search for the school. If your school doesn't show, you can just leave the school info blank and just select the state. There will be alot of hits. You'll have to page through them then. A problem some may run into before you can get the software is that you need to be enrolled into a particular curriculum. At the top of the page that comes back for your school, click on support to see who to contact about getting an account. The school my wife goes to has XP w/SP2 ISO for a free download and they will issue you a CD key.
http://www.msdnaa.net/search/SchoolSearchUS.aspx

 

[r0bVious]

I'll keep this stuff in mind. Next year will be my freshman year, and I never cease looking for deals.

 

[Jdioutkast]

Just wanna ask Enimysteregma wat school u going 2

 

[kellybrf]

i missing buying my windows/office software for $5 from the bookstore

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: kellybrf
i missing buying my windows/office software for $5 from the bookstore

Yeah I wish I could do that... the prices they charge here are ridonkulous

 

[mb]

i go college

 

[Outrager]

My university, SUNY Stony Brook, gives out Office for free (choice of Mac or Windows version) and XP Pro for free. You used to be able to buy the XP Pro CD, but now you go to the library with a blank CDR and burn it.
They also let you download a bunch of Microsoft software (Visual Studios .Net, MS Student, etc) but only for certain majors.
As for computer deals, they used to have Apples you could buy, but not anymore. The Dell deals aren't all that great either. You can probably get better deals using the coupons you find online.

 

[beyonddc]

Yea, the school that I graduated from has something similar.
I purchased few licenses of Windows XP for 5 bucks a piece.
They also offer Visual Studio .net and Office XP at a discounted price also. I think it's between 10-15 dollars per license.

 

[mscdex0]

"Your mom goes to college"

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

i think technically these discounted lisences expire when you graduate. I'm not sure tough.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: unfalliblekrutch
i think technically these discounted lisences expire when you graduate. I'm not sure tough.

Not in the case of my state.



Here in Wisconsin, they are still somewhat expensive. I picked up Office for about $90. Because it is so incredibly useful, I also picked up Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium for $200 (retail is $1200).

 

[middlehead]

Originally posted by: kellybrf
i missing buying my windows/office software for $5 from the bookstore

$15 for office here, but it's only available to graduates. Windows itself is the same way, but they'll only sell that in May so I'm not sure of the price yet (they'll sell office to graduates in any term).

 

[Tegeril]

In most cases, this is called the MSDNAA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance - correct me if any part is wrong).

I have 4 legal Windows XP CD keys from this fantastic program.

 

[herkulease]

I wish I was still in school when vista comes out. maybe I'll enroll in a few classes just to have the student discount.

blah it'll be useless. I checked san jose state's student discounts.

academic price for full xp home is 199. that's retail price. in fact quick look at everything else seems to be close to retail price.

its san jose state I'm sure the morons that work there don't even realize it.

 

[sindows]

No go at Florida schools save FIT. All of them offer software at rediculous prices.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: sindows
No go at Florida schools save FIT. All of them offer software at rediculous prices.

are you going to the bookstore or are you searching through your "ResNet" or "instructional Computing/IT" website (the people that handle the library pc's, or like the ones that handle the printers and such at the library, that department)?

 

[hdeck]

you can get 2 copies of winxp pro (64bit and 32bit bundle with unique serials) for $18 at UT. office xp pro for under $20 as well.

 

[eLiu]

Yeah, my school offers LOADS of software for free.

WinXP (64bit edition if we want it), Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, RHEL4, OSX, MS Office, several Adobe products (i forgot which), various X-windows clients (for windows), Dreamweaver, FileMaker Pro, various EE circuit layout things, and more.

And if you stroll to a cluster machine (or install the school's OS on yours), you have access to even more random crap that's volume licensed to us.

We also get reasonable discounts on computers/laptops--I've seen other schools with better deals (for example, I bought mine from Duke instead of my school).

Academia = awesome.

 

[DaFOBulous1]

man, can u guys buy it and sell it...my school sux!

 

[SilentVixen]

I got 2 copies of xp pro (x32 and x64) for $12 ($6 each)

 

[czech09]

Originally posted by: sindows
No go at Florida schools save FIT. All of them offer software at rediculous prices.

Hehe maybe it's because students there can't spell ridiculous . Anyways, here at UF they definetly offer Win XP Pro, MS Office, and even Windows Server 2000 for free for students.

 

[Thump553]

How do you find out about these programs? I have three kids who have gone to three different colleges and none of them could turn up any deals like this.

 

[Drekce]

Originally posted by: sindows
No go at Florida schools save FIT. All of them offer software at rediculous prices.

I know they offer the deals at UCF. Look harder.

 

[Tu13erhead]

My school offers an "Academic version" of XP Pro for $99, or the full version of XP Pro for $300. Or Windows 2000 Pro for $130. Or Office Pro 2003 for $199. The cheap prices are endless!

Pretty pathetic if you ask me.

:|

 

[ngvepforever2]

My School Offers
Access 2003
MSDN Library (Visual Studio) (4 cds)
Microsoft Project Professional
Virtual PC 2004
Visio Professional 2003
Visual .NET 2003
Visual Studio 2005
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP Pro with SP2
Windows XP 64-bit

I think that the EULA requires to uninstall the software once you are out of the academic world. I am not too sure though..

Regards

ng