How to get Windows 7 for $50 and Office for $99

Australian students, teachers and employees of educational institutions should listen up. Microsoft is offering Windows 7 for only $50 and Microsoft Office Professional Academic for only $99! You will need to go to the Microsoft backed website Itsnotcheating.com.au to put in your student/staff email address (must be a .edu.au to qualify) and you will  be able to order the programs for the special price.


Some may wonder whether the version that is available for this price is a good enough version. Below is a table of the different Microsoft Office versions available and how they are different. The one that is being offered on itsnotcheating.com.au is the Professional Academic one which looks like a pretty healthy option.

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Should you get the dvd? 
There is an extra charge of $14 for the backup dvd. Nothing stops you from downloading the program and sticking it on a blank dvd for backup so if you want to save $14 that's one way to do it.


For Windows 7 you will need the following requirements in order for it to run on your computer. 

Architecture	32-bit	64-bit
Processor	1 GHz 32-bit processor	1 GHz 64-bit processor
Memory (RAM)	1 GB of RAM	2 GB of RAM
Graphics Card	DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0 (For Aero)
HDD free space	16 GB of free disk space	20 GB of free disk space
Optical drive	DVD drive (only to install from DVD/CD Media)