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Windows 7 Professional for $0 - Technical Students through MSDNAA

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For those university/TAFE students enrolled in a technical degree, check whether your particular school/department (for example, the School of Engineering at University of XYZ) has a MSDNAA subscription. Windows 7 Professional is licensed for all students within these departments that have MSDNAA. Even better, if they have the free add-on called ELMS you can download Windows 7 directly from home without having to check out the disc from the uni IT guys.

Happy to answer any questions.

This is separate to DreamSpark (www.dreamspark.com) which is available to all students regardless of what they're studying (DreamSpark has Windows Server 2008, not Windows 7).

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  • Sounds like a good offer to me , now if i could only work out the criteria to become an MCP in Australia dont know a good contact do you ?

    • +1

      MCP - as in Microsoft Certified Professional? Or something else? MCP requires you to pass a set of exams for the technology you're trying to certify on so you don't need a contact per se.

      Unless you meant something else?

      • doh sorry meant MCT i am an MCP already :) thanks

        i would like to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer as i am a qualified trainer already and have my mcp , just the criteria is very confusing as i can only find the north american one and very few Australian learning centres have any idea or none that i have found

        • +1

          I've raised this internally to find out who you should talk to.

  • you can become an MCP by downloading PDFs, cramming and passing a $250 exam (vue? prometric?)

    rubbish cert. but employers don't mind it

  • +2

    FYI: I think my Uni, University of Newcastle only lets IT students use the MSDNAA account. not engineering or computer science. dammit.

    • +1

      Unfortunately this will be dependent on each university and how they're organised. However, ALL students within a department that has MSDNAA are licensed. So, if it's the School of Computing and Engineering that has MSDNAA, all students studying, even one subject, are eligible. I've heard of some university IT guys interpreting it, or just deciding independently, that only those students studying a subject that requires the particular technology are given access.

      My advice is to let them know that the license agreement (EULA) does allow all students, especially if you're one and you want some of the software such as Win7.

      • +1

        Our uni (ANU) only gives it to those doing a PhD/Masters. Bastards. It probably doesn't cost them a cent to give it to other students but the nazi who was given the cool job of giving people the uni's MSNDA login details likes to flex his e-muscles it seems. //HALT! YOU MUST NOT CROSS THE MSNDAA TUNNEL!

    • Correct, (AT THE MOMENT) You have to be enrolled in an INFT course. e.g INFT1001 :)

  • I'm using this at home, works well and you can download both x86 and x64 versions. At RMIT you can download it on campus and don't have to borrow the disk.

    • Can you give the download link for this ?
      Thanks

      • The download links are only available inside the MSDN account — you need to have access to an account to download them.

  • I would assume that since the institution has the subscription they would own the license and the student would not be allowed to use the license once they have finished their degree?

    USYD is appears to be a member: http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/help/licensed_software.php

    • I think you can use the license as long as you like. I got my Vista business from MSDNAA few years ago and it still working after I finished my course.

      • Yeah, I started reading the 'fine print' over @ http://www.msdnaa.net/emea/FullEnglish_documentation.aspx.

        I would still probably fork out the $100-150 for an OEM version just to avoid the 'personal' and 'non-commercial use' clauses.

        If your not using it for work/commercial development and are eligible, I would highly recommend this though.

    • +1

      Just note that the list shown on the USYD page is outdated, but their statement in the intro line is correct:

      "All of the software licensed under the MSDNAA Program is available for students, faculty and staff at their convenience."

      The software list now includes (not limited to, this is just a subset):
      Windows 7
      Windows Server 2008
      Visual Studio 2008
      Expression Studio 3
      Project 2007
      Visio 2007
      SQL Server 2008
      Exchange
      etc…

      By the way, the prices listed on the page I linked to are for the university to subscribe, not for the students - for the end-user - student, faculty, etc - it's no cost.

  • +1

    This might sometimes change. Previously members of the IEEE could get Windows 7 Professional via the MSDN but they yanked it from the list of programs.

    • +1

      That's interesting - that could be the administrator's decision, but MSDNAA subscriptions definitely include Win7 Pro for students, so if the IEEE has an MSDNAA subscription, you should be set. I would enquire as to the reason why it was pulled.

      • Both ACM and IEEE MSDNAA used to offer Windows 7 until lots of people signed up purely just to get a discounted or free Windows 7.

        • AFAIK the problem wasn't too many new members, it was that 90% of them were not students.

  • -1

    or for a small fee you can get a MSDN account you can access for 3 years and download all MS product with 10 legit keys each ;-)

    • -1

      "Legit" keys in the sense that they'll work - but not legal.

      • why arent they legal ?

        if you paid for the msdn subscription .. how can they not be legal ?

        • Because he's referring to the sale of MSDN accounts spawned by BizSpark exploitation.

    • Problem is, MSDN membership isn't cheap even when there are discount code flying around the place.

  • Great deal but has it been posted before checks

    • Apologies if it has been, but I'm reasonably sure it hasn't been posted previously.

      • Maybe it was something similar, either way, great deal :)

      • I haven't seen it? Thanks for the post.

  • Yep, I got the MSDNAA version of Win 7 Pro 32bit and 62bit in August when it was released into the MSDN.

    Got 2 keys and you can install it with that key on as many computers as you'd like so long as they are 'your' computer. You just gotta call up MS to activate it over the phone if online activation doesn't work.

    I've installed my 32bit key on 2 desktops, 1 netbook and 1 laptop, all activated over the phone(except the first one) without a hitch.

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