Vigilante

You are incorrect, my friend. At Texas A&M OSes were available for $15 (last I checked, might be even cheaper now) and earlier this year at my local college I got vista business for FREE through the deal the college has with MS for students. XP, XP-64 and vista business were all options, among about 2 dozen other packages. I also downloaded server 2003 and 2008 standard for free even more recently by registering my windows live account in association with the college I was attending. That 2003 is on my file/AD server.

Your college may not offer it, but there are several deals colleges can set up with MS that include full retail software for free.

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