I found the below link posted in another forum. Apparently if you are enrolled in an educational institutation with a school email address and taking atleast .5 credit hours, you are elegable for the deal. I don’t know the computer requirements for running windows 7 or how good it actually is, but might be cost effective if one has an old box or laptop for use with a bot that is without an os.
Windows 7 rocks, have been running beta and then rc on a system since the begining of the beta. It takes some getting use to, but is by far better than Vista. Networking is far better once you figure it out, and also the little glitch with HP wireless printers seems to be gone. The operating system is not the memory hog vista is either. I have it on my old Toshiba laptop, 0 driver issues (was an early xp machine) and a new desktop I purchased without and operating system on it.
Good to hear! I’m running Vista-64 on a high end quad core and despite what everyone else says I have had alomst no problems with it and like it better then XP. I was an early beta tester for XP but not for Vista or Win7. I’m hoping that Win7 is like Vista only better.
Mark
As soon as I built my computer in May, I downloaded Windows 7 RC for my new Powerful computer and a computer that I think originally ran 98. It runs fine although I have to take off the visual effects, but it’s ok.
I only had to download 1 (1!!!) driver from a CD for my video card. The rest Windows 7 does. I have 4 printers that I can use on my computer (don’t ask why… 
), 7 downloaded drivers for my monitorS, D-link, MP3, various external HHDs (some needed some CD drivers on other computers). Basically I plug anything in and it finds the drivers and installs them. So the people who want “ease of use” can’t complain anymore. You can run Programs with XP compatibility or use virtual XP in the professional version I think.
I also love tiny features that I find SOOO useful like pushing a windows on the sides or the top to change the size. When I go on XP computers now, I keep wanting to do that.
If you’re a student, this is a good deal, too bad I’m not in the States.
I’m proud of Microsoft for this one! 8) I never used Vista for a long time, but I never had problems
Sam
Although I have not used Windows 7, I have only read good things about it. One author who is a Apple fan even said Windows 7 was impressive. The author also said that Apples Snow Leopard OS is comparable to the Vista nightmare, and that you would think that Apple would have learned from Microsoft’s mistakes with Vista. He called it “Slow Leopard”.
My wife is a student and we could use that discount to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 on one of our laptops.