Free Stuff
Can anyone else at UoA log in to msdn.cs.auckland.ac.nz, or is it just for Compsci students? Try it out for me. I get a page full of free (beer) software licenses, including links to generate a product key for Windows Vista Business and Windows XP Professional. The Vista license alone is worth an astonishing $728.
There are download links too, but they only work from on campus. That's not much trouble though - there are DVD burners on heaps of machines, and blank media is cheap.
Edit: Apparently this website works too - it might get you a product key if the MSDN site has run out. Read the instructions for logging in carefully (you have to prepend 'ec\' to your UPI). That one also has Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, with an RRP of about NZD$5400.
There are download links too, but they only work from on campus. That's not much trouble though - there are DVD burners on heaps of machines, and blank media is cheap.
Edit: Apparently this website works too - it might get you a product key if the MSDN site has run out. Read the instructions for logging in carefully (you have to prepend 'ec\' to your UPI). That one also has Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, with an RRP of about NZD$5400.