£30 for Windows 7? Yes please!

Want Windows 7 but don’t fancy paying full price? That’s alright then, as Microsoft’s touting a legit way to nab a copy of the OS that rights the wrongs of Vista for just £30. Read on to find out how it’s done.

If you’ve already got a PC, switching over to Windows 7 would cost at least £65 for the Home Premium edition. But Redmond’s just dropped word of a way to get it for a massive discount – if you’re a student.

From 30 September to 3 January 2010, any student with a valid academic email addy (IE, one that ends in .ac.uk) can order Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional, both in 32 and 64 bit flavours, for just £30. That’s not as cheap as Snow Leopard, no, but it is an enormous reduction of more than 50 percent nonetheless.

Scroungers rejoice! If you know anyone pretending to go to lectures right now, get on the phone to them and start the sweet talking with promises of crates of beans and Pot Noodles in exchange for a Windows 7 license.

The Windows 7 student offer can be found here, but those leaving the nest for the first time beware: you’ll still have to put up with clunky Vista at college for at least 3 painful weeks.

(Via Electricpig)

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