ferris209 said:
Speaking of getting a good deal, I found out that Microsoft will sell Microsoft Office Enterprise Edition for personal use to Government employees for $10 as long as the government they work for has purchased an Office volume license. My city has a volume license, so I'm good there. Problem is that first I have to obtain some code from IT and then plug it into Microsoft's website, so now I am sitting and waiting for my IT dept to figure out what they are supposed to do to get the code. I wished they'd just let me use my city email to confirm my employment and sell the thing outright like they do for students.
For Office 2007? Funny thing is that our neighbor is in IT and as a gift he gave us a full retail version of Office 2007 Ultimate last year. So I have Windows 7 Ultimate and Office 2007 Ultimate and paid $0.00 hahaha not too shabby if you ask me.
Side note, I got a "Technical Preview" of Office 2010. It's not the jump that Office 2003 to Office 2007 was but it's a nice refresh. It seems that it has more features oriented for collaboration than anything else.
Octorox said:
I'm getting the 64-bit pro version soon via the student discount (a nice $45 dollars), although since Im installing it on my MBP with Snow Leopard I probably wont be booting into it all that often. You can clean install with an upgrade version right? I have a partition with Home Premium Vista 32-bit (which I bought in full but really dont care for) which I just plan to erase and install over.
Here is what I have found on that subject
In order to install the upgrade version of Windows 7, you must have a qualifying Windows operating system installed and activated. You cannot install an upgrade version of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive. The installation procedure does not ask you to insert a Windows disc in the drive for verification, the actual qualifying operating system must be installed.
If you do not have a qualifying Windows operating system installed with a genuine license activated, then you cannot use the upgrade version of Windows 7 - you would need a "full version" Windows 7 license.
In summary:
1. A qualifying Windows operating system must be installed.
2. The qualifying Windows operating system must have a genuine license (product key) and it must be activated.
3. To upgrade, boot to the qualifying Windows desktop, insert the Windows 7 Upgrade disc in the DVD drive.
4. When the setup menu appears, select Custom (advanced) to initiate a clean install procedure.
The consensus is that if you insert the Upgrade disk and run the setup during a windows session, you can initiate a clean install or "custom" install as it is called. As long as the windows session you run it from has a valid product key and is activated.