why doesnt microsoft have discounts for their windows for people on pensions or disabilitys like for students?
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Thats another reason, why world need to move from propietary software to opensource/free software.
898001
I am on a disability pension. Not much to do. I get great satisfaction in using my knowledge, accumalated over the years. What took years for me to learn, could help save others valuable time, as a paragraph or two could possibly solve their problem.\nIt nice to help others.
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Everyone that uses a Microsoft product is a Beta Tester.\n\nSeriously though, click the link below on the MS support site and it will walk you through signing up.
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why? cant you get yr own /they are  free
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Yes there is. I am on one at the moment. Its called a disability support pension and the commonwealth government provides it. The amount you get depends on what your circumstances are..if you live with your parents, your income etc. I get around $300.00 per fortnight. But as I said, when your considered independant you get more... around $400.00. They require you to fill in a few forms and provide a medical certificate from your doctor. Hope that helps!
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There was an article about this yesterday.  It's because the government are withdrawing the funding so those adults who wish to continue to study are losing a lot of the courses, and those that will still have courses will have to pay double what they are paying now.\n\nThis is so that the government, who have failed the youngsters in school - so that when they leave they are not educated enough - can pump more money into laying on courses for 19 to 25 yr olds to try to make them more employable.\n\nI will see if I can find the link....\n\nhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2106703,00.html\n\nThe link may not stay active for very long so I have copied the info if you can't access it...let me know.
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simply put, the people who sold it were not legally allowed to sell the Microsoft product. To use windows you have to pay Microsoft a license fee, since you got the product from someone else, Microsoft did not get their money so and you were not provided with a product key to legally use it.\nThat is why Microsoft uses product keys, to prevent people from selling multiple copies of their software without giving any money to Microsoft itself. It is a form of copy protection.\nYou purchased a pirate copy of windows.\n\nok enough of the preaching. If you still want to use this product there are numerous websites that provide product keys for pirated software. However I am not going to help you avoid the license fee, but I am sure google can aid you in your search.\nOr you can ask the people you bought it from if they have the key that came with it.
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You have aleady answered the question. The cost is supposedly reflected in the benefits you will later receive. However, the reality is that some are automatically excluded because they do not have the resources or access to financial assistance. The middle class are those at most risk, many of whom enter debt and financial hardship as a result.
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You might have a problem with stealing a key. MS has started imposing restrictions on its software that include forcing a user to register within 30 days or have product disabled. & if the key is already in use by MS's records your gonna be out of luck.\n\nYour best bet is to download & use open office. It's free.
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1983  Microsoft  Windows was announced November 10,  1983 and sells for $100.00.\n1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November, 1985 and is initially sold for $100.00.\n1987 Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00.\n1987 Microsoft Windows/386 or Windows 386 is introduced December 9, 1987 and is initially sold for $100.00.\n1988 Microsoft Windows/286 or Windows 286 is introduced June, 1988 and is initially sold for $100.00.\n1990 Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released May, 22 1990. Microsoft Windows 3.0 full version was priced at $149.95 and the upgrade version was priced at $79.95.\n1991 Microsoft Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.0a with multimedia was released October, 1991.\n1992 Microsoft Windows 3.1 was released April, 1992 and sells more than 1 Million copies within the first two months of its release.\n1992 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released October, 1992.\n1993 Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released August, 1993.\n1993 The number of licensed users of Microsoft Windows now totals more than 25 Million.\n1994 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was released February, 1994.\n1994 Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released September, 1994.\n1995 Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 was released June, 1995.\n1995 Microsoft Windows 95 was released August, 1995 and sells more than 1 Million copies within 4 days.\n1996 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 was released August, 1996.\n1996 Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 was released November, 1996.\n1997 Microsoft Windows CE 2.0 was released November, 1997.\n1998 Microsoft Windows 98 was released June, 1998.\n1998 Microsoft Windows CE 2.1 was released July, 1998.\n1999 Microsoft Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) was released May 5, 1999.\n1999 Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 was released 1999.\n2000 Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 2000.\n2000 Microsoft Windows ME (Millennium) released June 19, 2000.\n2001 Microsoft Windows XP is released October 25, 2001.\n2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is released March 28, 2003.\n2005 Microsoft announces it's next operating system, codenamed "Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista on July 23, 2005.
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Well I think that ok, they are coming out with a new windows, but the minimum req. are a bit much. Some people have to go out and buy a whole new pc for it. I am safe because my new pc is Vista capable. But I do not know if just because it meets the minimum req for it, that it will run slow. So i have to buy a whole new one with better features so it can have better speed or something.
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save up to 80% http://mybenefitsplus.com/40436527
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First try looking for the product on ebay.  You can then look for education sites that sell software to students.  These can be alot cheaper this way.
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Edison is my electric company, and they offer discount programs for low income, elderly or medical equipment usage. I am sure SDG&E has similar programs. \n\nIf there are similar programs, you will probably have to fill out an application, which is available for download on their Web site.
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Microsoft dose not do it directly. Have to go through third party.
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there a single policy party. no way . do they care about my pension, school, disabled, hospitals. tax. Ask these questions. if the answers you find are indeed the answers you want out of this country then go with what you want. My answer would be no.
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You shouldn't have to pay Microsoft money to fix holes in a product that they sold you.  Why don't they make it secure in the first place?  And if they do know how to secure their OS, then they should fix it.\n\n'Here's the best personal computer advice you'll get all year, perhaps ever: If you only use Windows, dump it and get a Mac. Take the $50 you would have wasted for trying to secure the Windows mess, add in all of your annual wasted time and the costs of your other Windows anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-malware software plus the processor cycles you waste running them, and apply it toward your .Mac subscription instead. Don't forget to ask your software vendors to "cross-grade" your software (pay the upgrade price - or in some cases just the shipping cost - to switch from the Windows version to the Mac version, instead of the full retail price - many vendors will accommodate you). You'll come out so far ahead, you'll think you've jumped forward a decade - which, of course, would be true.'