Windows 7 For £30

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Oct 27 2009 09:56 GMT in Gold Prognosticus

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* http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/studentoffer/

(The link is the UK version, there's an American equivalent but I don't know the address)

I'm considering buying this deal (school emails ftw) but I'll need to make sure my audio card can handle it, since it turned up as a problem on the compatibility checker. Those of you who tried the beta, is it worth switching from XP to 7?

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yes, Windows 7 is great. Although I have only used it on a fast new laptop, and not on an old XP machine.

Reply by Francis Oct 27 2009 15:41 GMT

Do Steam and other XP games work fine on Windows 7?

Reply by Gold Prognosticus Oct 27 2009 17:30 GMT

They should. Generally, anything that worked on Vista should work on Windows 7. So if you are worried about an old game, search around to see if it works on Vista. Steam works fine.

Reply by Francis Oct 27 2009 17:34 GMT

There's complaints that the school version is more crash-happy than the normal version and therefore unreliable.

Reply by sims Oct 27 2009 19:22 GMT

Well, my dad's just ordered a copy (he payed a bit extra to get a disc) for use on his laptop. We'll see how well it works then.

Reply by Gold Prognosticus Oct 28 2009 09:21 GMT

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