Students can get a hold of Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for just $29.99 – that’s $90 off the regular retail price! To be eligible, you must have your own .edu email address. The offer is only available up until January 3rd 2010 for US, Canada, France, Germany, Korea, Mexico and UK citizens. Residents of Australia will have until March 31st, 2010 to get the student discount. The offer is available at Win741.

But before you go purchase your copy, check to see if your institution already offers Windows 7 for free. Many universities offer complimentary MSDNAA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance) accounts to their students, which will allow you to download Windows 7 for free.

Note that Microsoft has confirmed with PCWorld that hundreds of users are currently having problems downloading the software. A Microsoft support engineer commented on Microsoft Answers regarding the problem:

For those that have purchased Windows 7 from Digital River and receive the error ‘We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded’ when going through the ‘Unloading the Box’ [step]…Microsoft and Digital River are aware of the issue and it’s being investigated,

Instead of providing students with the disk image, Digital River accidentally delivered the download as Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x64.exe along with two other .box files. Fortunately, DownloadSquad has offered a workaround to this problem. Alternatively, you may download Windows 7 from other sources or peer-to-peer networks.

An update will be provided if Microsoft issues any statements regarding fixes to the problem.

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