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PCs & Mobiles Forum - Windows 7 Professional - Upgrade £36.95 or Cheaper delivered - Page 1
posted by M. on Tuesday, 3rd November 2009, 21:55
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Only if you have a child in education but this offer seemingly includes all students eg: Primary/Secondary School (5-18yrs) unlike some 'student' offers that require a 'uni' email address,
Linky: www.software4students.co.uk/Product.aspx?ProductName=Microsoft_Windows_7_Professional_32_bit_Edition
64 Bit version also available for same price!
They're an official M$ partner linked to from here for thiose with any concerns as to the genuineness of the company in question: www.microsoft.com/uk/education/studentoffer/
Anyone upgrading from Vista Premium will need to perform a "Full 'Clean' Install" as this is the Professional version so you'll need to back up your files/data externally and re-install your programs as this upgrade will wipe the lot according to what I can tell. Lots of info available at M$ website for any questions you may have...like I did...
Hope this helps someone else with kids save a few £.
EDIT: Seemingly cheaper here £32.66 
, another official partner students.pugh.co.uk/index.php?nID=productDetail&offersID=159&manu=50&prodID=2830
This item was edited on Tuesday, 3rd November 2009, 22:13
posted by Rassilon on Friday, 6th November 2009, 00:09
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Very useful, eldest is still at a UK college. Had a look for schools equvalent Canadian offer but needs to be at a major college\university.
I consider myself an optimist, albeit an optimist with cynical tendencies and a dark side that Lucifer himself would find a little creepy. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) You don’t normally associate cynicism with an upbeat pov. But I have exactly that combination and will defend it.
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posted by Superted on Thursday, 12th November 2009, 16:03
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Just read this part on the second link :
Quote:
Please Note: Windows 7 Professional Upgrade can only be used for inplace upgrades from the Windows Vista Business operating system of the same architecture (32 or 64 bit). For in-place upgrades from Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate, you will need to purchase Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Does that mean I cannot use this upgrade as I have Vista Home Premium not Vista Business? as it also mentions.
Quote:
This version of Windows 7 ships as an upgrade edition. In order to perform a clean install using this edition, you must have an existing valid Windows operating system licensed to your PC.
No mention of whether it must be Vista let alone Vista Business.
All the best
Gerald.
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posted by Rassilon on Thursday, 12th November 2009, 17:50
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For Vista upgrades you are reinstalling over the top keeping your files & settings, therefore the upgrade must be like for like.
For anything else its a clean install (so first back up files & settings etc).
Thats as I understand it anyway according to the blurb on the back of the boxes here.
I consider myself an optimist, albeit an optimist with cynical tendencies and a dark side that Lucifer himself would find a little creepy. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) You don’t normally associate cynicism with an upbeat pov. But I have exactly that combination and will defend it.
Violent & emotionally unstable duck with rocket propelled grenade launcher, seeks desk job preferably around other people.
Moderator at ADTelly - UKTV overseas.
Non referal link.
posted by Superted on Friday, 13th November 2009, 05:28
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Thanks Ras,
Think I might go for this offer, I am getting on fine with Vista but the software for our PAT Testers will not work with Vista so have dual boot running.
Can pretty much guarantee everytime I am in XP I need some info that is in my Email on Vista, have to reboot to get a phone number or name, then re boot back in to XP to type it into the PAT software.
Am hopeing the XP mode in Windows 7 might solve this problem, there is a newer version of the PAT software that is Vista compatible but its £800 + vat
All the best
Gerald.
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posted by Miles on Friday, 13th November 2009, 06:23
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Gerald...have you considered running a virtual machine inside your Vista environment?
VirtualBox is free (and pretty damn good in my opinion)...so you could create a virtual PC there and install XP using your licence key from the dual boot (obviously wiping the dual boot when you're happy 
).
www.virtualbox.org for more info (or PM me).
posted by bytemaster on Friday, 13th November 2009, 12:13
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Virtualbox works well. I have an XP VM running on XP so that I can run Office 2007 without clobbering my Office 2003 setup.
posted by Choagy on Friday, 13th November 2009, 12:19
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Quote:
For Vista upgrades you are reinstalling over the top keeping your files & settings, therefore the upgrade must be like for like.
Not very technical so apologies. If this is indeed the case and an upgrade retains these files/ settings is 7 not just a fancy packaged SP for Vista and hence a money maker or am I being cynical 
Choagy FFCUK The SPL
posted by Miles on Friday, 13th November 2009, 12:26
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There are loads of people out there that believe the same thing Choagy, so I don't think you're being too cynical.
Given the fact it looks almost identical to Vista (give or take a few tweaks) it's not hard to jump to the same conclusion.
Thankfully though, it's not Vista
posted by Superted on Friday, 13th November 2009, 16:35
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Just had a look at theat virtualbox and looks good, just two questions that didn't seem to be answered.
The PAT Tester connects to the serial port to download/upload, would the virtualbox XP be able to access the serial port?
And, would it have network access? my 2 laser printers are networked so I would need to be able to print to them via the network connection.
All the best
Gerald.
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