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ecookman

Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:46 pm


MSDN Wannabe

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I am looking for cheep stuff from Microsoft, to do this I have heard you need to be a MSDN member.

BUUUTTT It isn't as easy as signing up, you have to be apart of a corporation, University student or something. Since I am in G11 I don't exactly qualify, what now, where should I go...


(Lol if I can... mind if Compsi is a corporation that I am a member of?


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saltpro15

Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:52 pm


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My father is a member.  It's great, we've gotten a bunch of software from Microsoft for 10$ or less


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ecookman

Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:54 pm


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My father is a member.  It's great, we've gotten a bunch of software from Microsoft for 10$ or less

Hence why I want to become a member. One of my father's co-workers (new university grad) got Win7 pro. for like under $40.


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saltpro15

Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:03 pm


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I think if you start a blog that reviews Microsoft products, they'll grant you membership.


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ecookman

Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:06 pm


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Any other ideas? from anyone else?

(thanks btw, I'll look into it.)


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Tony

Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:15 pm


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got Win7 pro. for like under $40.
I got it for free. Still prefer my OS X though.

I think https://www.dreamspark.com/ offers some of the software to high school students. You are not getting Win7 from there though.


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rdrake

Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:37 pm


RE:MSDN Wannabe

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$8.26 with tax from the bookstore for ultimate.


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apomb

Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:55 pm


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got Win7 pro. for like under $40.
I got it for free. Still prefer my OS X though.

Everything here plus: 

Join IEEE.

I have a membership with MSDN through that and my college.


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[Gandalf]

Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:04 pm


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Yeah, I get it free too, but haven't bothered yet.


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SNIPERDUDE

Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:52 pm


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Same here, got IEEE membership for my Computer Engineering program.


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DemonWasp

Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:51 am


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If you're a UW student (obviously doesn't apply to the OP...), you can get Windows 7 Pro for free (as well as several other versions of Windows) through the UWaterloo / MSDN storefront. It uses scary words like "shopping cart" and "checkout" but it's relatively simple. See [url=http://msdn04.e-academy.com/elms/Storefront/Home.aspx?campus=waterloo_ist]here and click on "Log In" at the top left.

Until then, either work with your existing XP / Vista or try Linux or BSD or Solaris or whatever.


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Alexmula

Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:02 pm


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university of windsor CS students also get a membership with MSDN :D may or may not be free (idk if its included in tuition)


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Euphoracle

Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:52 pm


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got Win7 pro. for like under $40.
I got it for free. Still prefer my OS X though.

I think https://www.dreamspark.com/ offers some of the software to high school students. You are not getting Win7 from there though.

I fucking love OSX.  I bought a macbook pro at the beginning of this month, absolutely no going back to windows for daily computer stuff.  I'm just kind of sad that I can't put it on my monstrosity of a desktop which is currently used for games and storage.

Just sayin'


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SNIPERDUDE

Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:56 pm


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I couldn't afford a Mac, so I bought a decent computer and triple booted Hackintosh, Linux, and XP (using an external HD to store files).

If I could I would get one.