Super Hot Deal on software for Students

[EliteXen]

Students at the University of Maryland Baltimore County get a special discount on Microsoft Software.

MS Windows 2000 Pro Upgrade $14.95
MS Windows 98 Refresh 2nd Edition Upgrade $9.95
MS Office 2001 for Macintosh $9.95
MS Windows XP Pro (Operating System) $14.95
MS Office Mac OS X $9.95
MS Visual Studio.Net Pro 2003 $29.95
MS Office 2003 Pro (Word. Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher) $9.95

The thing that really catches my eye is the Office 2003 Pro at the bottom for $9.95, that is a ridiculously good deal, but I guess it balances out when you factor in how much they charge for tuition. Anyways I didn't just put this deal up here to taunt anyone who doesn't go to UMBC, many schools now have deals worked out with Microsoft so that they could sell software to students at huge discounts. Even my high school gave out free copies of Office and Visual Studio to anyone who took a computer course. Just wanted to let you guys know to check your schools bookstore see if they have something like this worked out and if they don't maybe you should suggest it.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

My school had this stuff for $30, now they've raised it all to $79 each. Little fsckers...

 

[Aztech]

How do you check what schools are eligible?

 

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
My school had this stuff for $30, now they've raised it all to $79 each. Little fsckers...

Heh, me too. Of course, I see you go to Cal Poly also. I was lucky and I bought a copy of Office last year at the old price. Anyway, the only for sure way to know if your school has a special deal with Microsoft, go to your bookstore and find someone at the tech desk. They'll put the more expensive boxed version on display and have the cheaper disks only stuff behind the desk.

 

[rdegler]

At Oklahoma State University you can down load the following for FREE

Packages available for distribution:

Microsoft FrontPage 2002 for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft MSDN Library for VS2003.NET for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft MSDN Library for VS2003.NET for Students
Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac OS 9 for Students
Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac OS9 for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft Office 2003 for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft Office 2003 for Students
Microsoft Office X for Mac OS X for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft Office X for Mac OS X for Students
Microsoft Office XP Professional for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft Office XP Professional for Students
Microsoft Publisher 2002 for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 for Students
Microsoft Windows XP Upgrade for Faculty/Staff
Microsoft Windows XP Upgrade for Students


Here is the link
https://app.it.okstate.edu/mca/login.php

roy

 

[mzkhadir]

At devry, every year it costs us 175 now and we get this

Office XP Professional (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
Visual Studio .NET Professional (Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, MSDN Library)
Windows XP Professional Upgrade
FrontPage
Project
Visio

 

[mrokkam]

At Purdue...

we get all of these for 5$
Office 2003
Office XP
MS XP pro
IBM websphere
MS Frontpage

Office 2001 and MS Office v.x for Mac.

Macromedia Studio MX costs 99$

Mac os 10.3 Panther costs 50$

Kinda sweet

Mohan.

 

[Freejack2]

Heh, where I go it's cheaper to buy it from educational software sites than from the school. We do get Norton Antivirus for free though.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

We have MSDN AA, but that only includes microsoft os's and dev software, :brokenheart:. No office.

 

[dlaw]

We used to have good price on M$ products too, but now they ended the contract, worse still, they said that previously bought products need to get a lisence in order to be used legally... wtf?

 

[Computergasm]

Is it really a good deal? You did have to pay tuition.

 

[fzj80]

Originally posted by: dlaw
We used to have good price on M$ products too, but now they ended the contract, worse still, they said that previously bought products need to get a lisence in order to be used legally... wtf?

Not true, unless the software your school was giving you was not licensed and not registered anyway (which means the school could be easily sued). If it was registered when it was given to you, then you're fine. Unless ofcourse the school gave out say 1000 copies and Microsoft was only expecting them to give out 200 and they want to get paid for the rest, even then though the software is legit, it would be just that M$ wants money from the school.

Who knows...I wouldn't worry about it, just use it...

 

[minidanas]

Originally posted by: rdegler
At Oklahoma State University you can down load the following for FREE

Here is the link
https://app.it.okstate.edu/mca/login.php

You should have added that only Oklahoma State students can access it

 

[SlushieKen]

Originally posted by: rdegler
At Oklahoma State University you can down load the following for FREE

Here is the link
https://app.it.okstate.edu/mca/login.php

You should have added that only Oklahoma State students can access it

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Minidanas - What does that mean?

I kinda thought that went without saying

My g/f goes to UTA. 7$ for Windows XP. It would be great to be legit but anyone know what this note means exactly?

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PLEASE NOTE: Students graduating during the term of the CA agreement 9/1/02-8/31/05 will be issued a permanent license for products they have purchased. The license(s) will be issued upon graduation. Students who transfer or otherwise leave the university before graduation will *not* be permanently licensed for any MS CEA products.
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This is her last year there and she's not graduating... Does this mean that they supply a list of revoked licenses to M$ at the end of the school year or something? Does this mean that after she leaves the school my Office XP will stop working? Or does it just mean it will work, but not legally.

 

[hamburglar]

Does anyone know if there are cheap versions @ cal besides the "academic" versions they sell?

 

[dailyfreestuff]

ive been to three colleges, and NONE of them have had any cheap software deals like these that ive heard about for years

 

[SgtZulu]

Having a family member work in a library at a state univ. means all software is free over here.

 

[Growltiger]

My school doesn't even have a software section in it. How said is that? All I can download is Norton AntiVirus for free...whoooopeeeee...<does a little dance>

 

Originally posted by: minidanas

Originally posted by: rdegler
At Oklahoma State University you can down load the following for FREE

Here is the link
https://app.it.okstate.edu/mca/login.php

You should have added that only Oklahoma State students can access it

LOL

 

[iyam]

me lol too

 

[50]

Damn that is cheap! My mom works at Northeastern University...I've seen them in the bookstore (seperately owned) sell student edition MS software but it usually costs like 10-20 dollars less than retail. Is there a special place she should ask about this from the school directly?

 

[RhinoC]

actually those prices are just for the CD, your school is paying MS for the licenses. My schools departments bought the ms license program but it wasnt offered to the students. We had to buy the software for $100 for XP and $200 for office i think. but if your school is buying the licenses for you, good for you.

 

[WangDangDoodle]

Originally posted by: minidanas

Originally posted by: rdegler
At Oklahoma State University you can down load the following for FREE

Here is the link
https://app.it.okstate.edu/mca/login.php

You should have added that only Oklahoma State students can access it

I disagree! Having this site in hand can be used when trying to get the powers that be at a particular school to do the same.

WangDangDoodle

 

[rcrooks]

I goto Arizona and our crap isnt that cheap... I wish it was though ... I like Office 2003

 

[bpAgent86]

University of Houston Clear Lake has the following prices:

Windows XP Professional $5.00
Visual Studio .NET 2003 (Includes MSDN below) $20.00
Windows 2000 Server Versions $1.00
Visio Professional $5.00
SQL Server 2000 $1.00
Windows 2003 Server $5.00
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise $5.00
Windows 2003 Server WEB $5.00
Exchange/Conference Server 2000 $1.00
Commerce Server 2000 Developer $1.00
Project 2002/Data Analyzer $5.00
Project Server 2002 $5.00