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Greg Williams | SAIC Service Desk Account Processor | SAIC Service Desk | phone: 877-WWW-SAIC -----Original Message----- From: medianews-boun...@etskywarn.net [mailto:medianews-boun...@etskywarn.net] On Behalf Of George Antunes Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:31 PM To: medianews@etskywarn.net Cc: globa...@mhtc.net; pe...@geekcom.com Subject: [Medianews] Cheap Windows 7 Headed for College Campuses September 17, 2009, 3:36 PM ET Cheap Windows 7 Headed for College Campuses By Nick Wingfield Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/17/cheap-windows-7-headed-for-colleg e-campuses/?mod=rss_WSJBlog?mod= Microsoft is about to find out whether it can prevent further defections to the Macintosh among college students by charging less for Windows 7 than a typical textbook. On Thursday, the company announced on Twitter that college students in the U.S. can upgrade their PCs to Windows 7 Home Premium edition for only $29.99, as long as they have a genuine copy of Windows XP or Vista already installed on their systems. That's a quarter of the $119.99 Microsoft currently charges everyone else for an upgrade to the same version of Windows 7. The details about the offer are on a special Web site Microsoft set up. There are a couple of catches: Customers have to have a dot-edu email address to prove they're affiliated with a college, and their $29.99 buys them a version of Windows 7 that they can download Oct. 22 when the operating system becomes available, not a DVD. The offer ends Jan. 3 of next year. A Microsoft spokeswoman said similar offers will be available to college students in the U.K., Korea and other countries. Windows 7 will be an important test of whether Microsoft can slow or reverse Apple's momentum in the higher-education market. The student market has long been a stronghold for the Mac relative to its share of the larger market, but the Mac took a beating from Windows throughout the late 1990s in the education market as Apple struggled to get itself back on track. In recent years, the Mac has undergone an amazing resurgence on campuses. Records kept by the University of Virginia show the Mac accounted for 37% of the computers owned by first-year students at the school in 2008, up from about 3% in 2000. Other examples abound of collegiate gusto for the Mac. Maybe it's a coincidence, but Apple recently started selling Snow Leopard, the new version of its Mac operating system, for $29, just a hair below Microsoft's Windows 7 upgrade offer for college students. ================================================= George Antunes Voice (713) 743-3923 Associate Professor Fax (713) 743-3927 Political Science Internet: antunes at uh dot edu University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3011 *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
