End of vista support

[#1]

just ordered w7 pro from the student site under my 5 year olds name and primary school  .
cheers for the info moominfish

[#2]

@ Asbo, You jammy sod

[#3]

and i can still get 3 more cheap copys to, thoe some days paying full whack for W7 over having to put up with the chaos would be worth it 

[#4]

This licensing lark is really complicated. For instance, my friend is running Vista Basic (quite happily I might add). When support finishes, what is the best/cheapest way of proceeding with a W7 upgrade? Got a feeling that it might be best to buy a new computer (and no, fox, she would definitely not be happy with Linux).
Now that asbo has a new baby I am wondering if he could get me another student version? 

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even thoe ive got children to put down on the very very very simple form you fill in, there was no checks to prove how old he was and that he attended that school.
i belive they would only check if you order alot copys under say a teacher or school account.

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Remind me WHY you have to "upgrade" if you are happy with your current version, is there someone coming from M$ to march you to the bank to get the money to upgrade? Will your current programs suddenly STOP working? Or is it just a case of "keeping up with the Jones'"? They are stopping supporting it so if you have an issue you can't go to them for support (well you can but you have to PAY for it M$) but they will probably still be releasing CRITICAL updates (like IE8  ) I know of some FIRMS that still use NT4! And some people are happy with W95 as their hardware won't support anything higher, and they have a "distrust" of Linux no matter how much I show them how much FASTER it is on the same PC. (even from a CD!)

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its that funny thing with M$ security faults

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I noticed that a bank was using a Windows XP in it's ATM - at least the ATM was broken and it was showing the M$ logo.
Scary! 

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Quote from: Asbo

just ordered w7 pro from the student site under my 5 year olds name and primary school  . cheers for the info moominfish

No probs Asbo

Quote from: Asbo

Thoe some days paying full whack for W7 over having to put up with the chaos would be worth it

Intrigued by this though, what chaos are you on about? Because it shouldn't matter if you pay full whack or get a discounted version of Win7 the support should be the same, it is with mine that I got under that Ultimate Student Deal as I've rang up on a few occasions for 'Support' lol.

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the chaos i was talking about was the 4 kids that enabled me to get the cheap deal 

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I know what you mean, I've only got 2 kids and they drive me crackers lol

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I am ordering a copy of win 7 64bit ultimate edition tomorrow as a surprise prezzie for my father in law.
He currently has vista 64 bit ultimate edition and has never got on with it.
I am currently a student thanks to the evening course I am doing so its gonna cost £51.50 all in.
Costs £150 from ebuyer and £180 from play so a dam fine saving I say!!
Cheers
Paul.

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my order went from processing to dispatched yestrday at midday and there sent out 1st class royal mail, so was kinda hoping it would turn up today but all the post man had was 3 ebay parcels for my GF.
looking at the site again there based in ireland so figuers it didnt come today. hopefully it will come tomoro as my hard drives been partioned and cleaned up ready for some new double glazing 

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just got my copy in hand now, see you later if all goes well