Windows Vista Business released to MSDNAA

[N1CK]

At long last, Windows Vista has been made available for download through MSDNAA.

UPDATE: Keys are now available... :D

Start bugging for your copy now... ;)

For those who don't know, the MSDN Academic Alliance is a Microsoft program which provides some Microsoft developer tools for free to students and faculty in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, and related fields.

Original Email:

Dear Program Administrator,

I am pleased to announce the release of ?Windows Vista Business DVD? in your ELMS system. You can enable this product for DSD (Direct Student Download) by following these steps:

Step 1: Login as administrator

Step 2: Click on Direct Student Download under Rapid Setup

Step 3: Check the product you want to add to DSD

- ?Windows Vista Business DVD?

Step 4: Click enable selected

This would enable the DSD for the product.

Please note that at this time, serial keys are not available in ELMS, but we expect to have keys in your system for the Vista product in the next 30 days. Currently, you will need to download the keys from the Microsoft Subscriber Download Site, located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic. Students will be required to obtain keys from the PA until such time that we receive serial keys from Microsoft.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

Sincerely,

ELMS for MSDNAA Team

e-academy Inc.

[email protected]

Email giving notification of the availability of keys...

Dear Program Administrator,

We are pleased to announce that serial keys for ?Windows Vista Business DVD? are now available in your ELMS system.

If you have already made Vista available in ELMS before this time, you will need to still provide the keys from the Microsoft Subscriber Download Site, located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic to those students who already obtained the product through ELMS. If you are making the product available today your students will be able to obtain the keys directly from ELMS.

You can enable this product for DSD (Direct Student Download) by following these steps:

Step 1: Login as administrator

Step 2: Click on Direct Student Download under Rapid Setup

Step 3: Check the product you want to add to DSD

- ?Windows Vista Business DVD?

Step 4: Click enable selected

This would enable the DSD for the product.

Sincerely,

ELMS for MSDNAA Team

e-academy Inc.

[email protected]

Edited January 17, 2007 by N1CK

[N1CK]

[Hankyone]

not in my school's msdnaa yet :(

[Quillz]

Not in my school's, either.

[Elliot B.]

I do Multimedia at university, but since it's an Art & Design course, I don't get offered anything within the MSDNAA :/

[Kenny McCormick]

My school has Windows Vista on MSDNAA, but no serials yet, just the download :(

[Elliot B.]

My school has Windows Vista on MSDNAA, but no serials yet, just the download :(

You will have to wait up to 30 days for the key. It's explained on the website I believe...

[Solecs]

I'd assume the admins will have to enable it before it shows up (as the original poster's quote says), which my university's department admin hasn't yet :hmmm:. Oh well, I might wait a while before picking it up since it's not officially supported up at school just yet. I'll definitely need to pick it up before the semester is out to make sure I get the nice pricing :yes: .

[Smigit]

Admins do have to enable it. At my uni we are allowed to simply email the admin with a request and they will add it. I managed to request Access 2003 and one or two other applications last year which were added the next day seeing as I needed them for a course.

Seeing as I'm doing a course on OS's next year maybe I can use that as an excuse for them to add vista

[+John Teacake MVC]

Yay I finally got it to download after a few days, When i first signed up for MSDNAA at my uni which was in second year the downloads went really fast (At Uni) Now I am in 4th year and they are really slow or fail to download at all. But glad I got Vista I must say its quite impressive. I installed it without a CD Key just need to get a CD key from my uni now :D.

[Angel Blue01]

They havn't sorted out the mess with the new admins yet at my school. I have to wait some more to see if its even there.

BTW, are your MSDNAA downlaods corrupt? With my school's page, any download for the last year has failed the CRC check.

[digitalsoft]

OMG i wish i'd got off my arse and got myself a MSDNAA account at college :(

[noroom]

My school has Windows Vista on MSDNAA, but no serials yet, just the download :(

Yeah, that's how it's going to be with me too. They'll offer the download, but since they only have a very limited amount of keys, no keys will be given to students.

[+John Teacake MVC]

They havn't sorted out the mess with the new admins yet at my school. I have to wait some more to see if its even there.

BTW, are your MSDNAA downlaods corrupt? With my school's page, any download for the last year has failed the CRC check.

Yeah they were. I spent all night downloading it the first time round too :(

[+John Teacake MVC]

Yeah they were. I spent all night downloading it the first time round too :(

Edit: I don't know how true this is but Ive heard that the ISP used to host the downloads for MSDNAA is widely used by slammers (Once hosting over 100 million spamming sites) and some of the traffic is blocked by other major Isps maybe that's the problem.

[dagamer34]

Microsoft is giving schools Business? Bleh, I want ultimate!

Anyone know when the Vista Anytime upgrade pricing is going to be released?

[Quillz]

Yeah, that's how it's going to be with me too. They'll offer the download, but since they only have a very limited amount of keys, no keys will be given to students.

If the whole point of MSDNAA is to offer students free, legal software, what's the point of even offering it if they don't intend to give students any product keys? Seems to be encouraging piracy if you ask me.

[dagamer34]

If the whole point of MSDNAA is to offer students free, legal software, what's the point of even offering it if they don't intend to give students any product keys? Seems to be encouraging piracy if you ask me.

Students go through a special program to get the keys, usually located at a campus computer store. Considering that most colleges haven't even started Spring semester, there really isn't too much to worry about anyway. Plus, most students wouldn't know about this particular release unless someone tells them, at which point they should be ready to hand out they keys anyway.

[scooterman]

crap my old school had x86 and x64 vista business available December 3rd for MSDNAA

and for those of you who want ultimate this is straight from the horses mouth...

This is the current thinking at Microsoft concerning Vista Ultimate being issued through the MSDN-AA Program:

"Vista Business was chosen for MSDN AA because it has an ideal toolset that most aligns with the vision of MSDN AA which is - to enable academic pursuits of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. There are only two main differences between Vista and Ultimate, and those differences will not affect a student's ability to pursue academic work in the STEM disciplines."

They might change their stance in the future, but currently they are not planning to make any version other than Vista Business available to us.

[pmshen]

i wish my school has MSDNAA =(

[grnemo]

What about keys? We are still waiting...

[Noveed]

Get on this lol, We can download this thing now but we have to get the keys from the IT HELPDESKS (uni ones) and if they cannot provide them then we have to wait until it is released ie the 30th/31st of this month until we get em. :(

Nice to have business, Ultimate would have been better.

[wired57]

the MSDNAA person for my school claims vista isn't avalible to us yet, I was like whatever.

[i||uSi0n^]

hum i had mine in start of dec 2006, download for cd/dvd + keys for business edition x86 and just last week was told that we'll be getting keys for ultimate edition by the end of jan 2007.

i||uSi0n^

Edited January 15, 2007 by i||uSi0n^

[Aero Ultimate]

My uni has Msdnaa, but it's only for staff on the campus and not for students.

However, since I'm not doing a technical but an arts major (to keep my sanity), it wouldn't have applied to me anyway.