Cheapest W7?

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ericp

Tesco are selling W7 upgrade for £64 are they the cheapest?
Bought mine for the same in Costco, so it might be a superstore price.

All I need now is to get a working serial number. :(((
 
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Gordon

Bought mine for the same in Costco, so it might be a superstore price.

All I need now is to get a working serial number. :(((
And why wasn't a Product key (which I presume you mean by "serial number")
found inside the case?
 
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Guest

Bought mine for the same in Costco, so it might be a superstore price.
All I need now is to get a working serial number. :(((
It never had one? What's the point..

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ericp

And why wasn't a Product key (which I presume you mean by "serial number")
found inside the case?
It was, but seems to bear little relation to the stuff on the disk at
insertion time in the install process.

Time for *meaningful* conversations with MS tomorrow.

I don't seem to be alone by google comments.
 
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Disbelief

Bought mine for the same in Costco, so it might be a superstore price.

All I need now is to get a working serial number. :(((
Bought two 'full' copies for £89.98 from PC World - complete with genuine
product keys!
 
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MCC

Tesco are selling W7 upgrade for £64 are they the cheapest?
I bought Windows Vista upgrade to Windows 7 from Comet for £58.95.

The box comes with DVDs for both 32 and 64 bit systems.
 
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Bullwinkle's news

Bought mine for the same in Costco, so it might be a superstore price.

All I need now is to get a working serial number. :(((
If you didn't get a serial number you got cheated out of your money. What's
the point in owni ng an OS without a sign of ownership. Take it back.

Regards,
 
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Gordon

It was, but seems to bear little relation to the stuff on the disk at
insertion time in the install process.
And what do you mean by that?
If you open the plastic case, remove the little booklet on the left hand
side, the Product key should be on a yellow sticker attached to the back of
the front cover...
 
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Gordon

MCC said:
I bought Windows Vista upgrade to Windows 7 from Comet for £58.95.

The box comes with DVDs for both 32 and 64 bit systems.
And I got mine for £44. (pre ordered......)
 
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Gordon

Gordon said:
And what do you mean by that?
If you open the plastic case, remove the little booklet on the left hand
side, the Product key should be on a yellow sticker attached to the back
of the front cover...
That's the front cover of the plastic case, not the front cover of the
booklet...
 
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Grymma

Grenou said:
I pre-ordered paid £63 at Amazon.co. uk.

You could find a friendly student, they get it a lot cheaper, around £30 :
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3202071

Grenou
We bought our Pro and Home versions on pre-order, so cheap enough. Now we
need another copy I have coerced my oldest daughters flatmate into ordering
me one on his ac.uk address. Not like he needs/wants it anyway, he's got an
iMac :) So £30 copy here we come - and thanks for the suggestion!
(Bit elitist that you have to be a uni student though - don't high school
students count?)
 
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Grenou

Grymma said:
We bought our Pro and Home versions on pre-order, so cheap enough. Now we
need another copy I have coerced my oldest daughters flatmate into
ordering me one on his ac.uk address. Not like he needs/wants it anyway,
he's got an iMac :) So £30 copy here we come - and thanks for the
suggestion!
(Bit elitist that you have to be a uni student though - don't high school
students count?)

Great!
Love the 'Goddess of Hangovers' ;-)

Grenou
 
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ericp

We bought our Pro and Home versions on pre-order, so cheap enough. Now we
need another copy I have coerced my oldest daughters flatmate into ordering
me one on his ac.uk address. Not like he needs/wants it anyway, he's got an
iMac :) So £30 copy here we come - and thanks for the suggestion!
(Bit elitist that you have to be a uni student though - don't high school
students count?)
Cheap of you Shortstuff!

(Just found out I could have done it reading here yesterday. :(( )

Ho-hum!
 
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Rich

Metspitzer said:
A friend of mine told me that the student version is crippled in XP.
Burning music on Media Player doesn't work.
I wonder if Win7 is like that too.
Windows 7 Student Upgrade is 100% functional, available as Home Premium &
Pro for the same price (hint: take the pro) &, of course, can be clean
installed. All you need is a functional e-mail address ending in *.edu.
There is no transcript checking, etc.


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~~Alan~~

Rich said:
Windows 7 Student Upgrade is 100% functional, available as Home Premium &
Pro for the same price (hint: take the pro) &, of course, can be clean
installed. All you need is a functional e-mail address ending in *.edu.
There is no transcript checking, etc.

__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus
signature database 4682 (20091212) __________

The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.

http://www.eset.com
I heard that the student version is distributed as a download and as an .exe
not as an .iso. Are there any pros or cons to this?

~alan
 
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Rich

~~Alan~~ said:
I heard that the student version is distributed as a download and as an
.exe not as an .iso. Are there any pros or cons to this?

~alan

For an additional $13 you can get an original Microsoft disk.
Originally, the download were "*box" files that "unloaded" into the
installation files that required burning. Many people had problems with
corrupted downloads, etc. & the resulting installation failures. The
distributer (Digital River?), changed it to a single "*.iso" image to burn
which takes complicated steps out of the download, unboxing & burning of the
original scheme. The "*iso" systems is leaner & better.
Rich


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