Students: $30 Upgrade to Windows 7 Home Ultimate or Professional

Filed in Shared Discovery, Software on Sep.18, 2009

Looking for a cheap, legitimate, almost free Windows 7 copy? Microsoft is offering Windows 7 Home Ultimate or Windows 7 Professional (32 and 64-bit versions) for $30 to college students with a valid .edu email address. Head on over to the order page, enter your email address and get in your pre-order! For the record, Windows 7 upgrades retail for $200. Take note: If you want the Professional version, click the link that says “Need to join your school’s network domain? Click here”. Since its the same price, I recommend getting the professional version since there are more usable features than Home, and less useless features than those contained in Ultimate.

Windows 7 will be available for download on October 22; those who pre-order will be sent a reminder email with the download link on that day.

The offer is good until January 3, 2010. Check out the table below to see what kind of upgrade experience you’ll be looking at. Keep in mind, though, if you purchase an upgrade instead of a full retail version, you need to keep the discs and keys for the OS you’re upgrading. If you ever need/want to reinstall Win 7, you’ll need those things.