Microsoft Vista Ultimate on Sale for College Students at $64.95 -- Savings of $155.00! Ultimate Office Special for Students at $59.95 Still Alive

Back in August I wrote about a really sweet deal from Microsoft for college students, where they could get the Ultimate version of Office 2007 for just 59.95, a savings of over 90% from the retail price of $679. That's the Ultimate version, not the one you see at stores called Home and Student which just includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Ultimate has all those elements of Office included , plus Publisher, Access, Accounting Express, Groove, InfoPath, and OneNote -- the really complete all-purpose pack.

Well, that deal is still active for qualifying college students, but now there's another great special for college students as well. Microsoft is selling them Vista Ultimate with SP1 for just $64.95 -- this version of Vista usually goes for $219.95 so you're saving $155.00. And at no extra cost to you, Microsoft will contribute $10 to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa for each purchase.

Vista Ultimate is the most complete and robust version of the operating system, and SP1 has the various updates that made it work better. It will give your computer more flexibility to run programs and applications, although you should be sure your system has all the required memory before you upgrade -- Vista does take a bunch.

But it's another way that Microsoft is cutting students a break. You need to be a current student at a registered college, and have a .edu e-mail address.

Hey, college costs are high enough -- why not take advantage of one of the ways being a student helps you save money? To check it out, click the link below.