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Microsoft via Digital River has the Windows 7 home premium and Windows 7 professional for sale at $29.99. This is a download version, if you want to order a CD you have to pay $13 more. This promotion is aimed to students only. You must have to have a valid edu email address to purchase Windows 7 products. Obviously, this is a great deal if you are using Windows Vista and want to switch to the new Windows 7 operation system. Normal price for a Windows 7 home premium would be $119.99!

YOU have to enter your school address ended with edu to star the purchase. After submit your email address, a link to place the order will be provided and you have to click the link to make the purchase.

Here are some instructions after enter your email address:

To Purchase:

1. Check your email inbox.
2. Click on the link in the email to access to the store.
3. Purchase your license/product key.
4. IMPORTANT! Hold on to your confirmation email. You will need this if you need to restart the installation process.
5. Checkout and download Windows 7!

If you do not receive the email:

1. Check your junk or spam folder.
2. Add “studentwindows.us@digitalriver.com” to your email contacts list or whitelist.
3. Request your university IT department add “studentwindows.us@digitalriver.com” to their email whitelist.
4. Click here to resend your password.
5. If the above actions do not work, contact Customer Service.

This promotion ends on Jan 3rd, 2010.

I first reported the huge 35% cash back from eBay via Microsoft live search in June 2008. I personally saved a lot of money through this trick for purchasing at eBay. There are even many other more crazy deals from Microsoft live search, for example, 40% cash back from HP on Black Friday, 25% cash back from AT&T and T-mobile or other places. If you are looking for something on eBay, it is wise to use Live Search to save additional money for you.

The microsoft cash back for purchasing at eBay has been stopped for a while. Now it comes back!

Following is a brief guide on how to get the eligible links through live.com.

Open your IE and go to live.com. Search “Xbox”, if you can not see any links, just refresh the page several times. It will come out finally. If you are using firefox, I’m sorry it does not work. It is also reported that Sarafi can also provide the 25% link.

If you are using firefox, you can search “Xbox”, “t43″, “onkyo”, “PS3″ or “wii cheap”. It will give you 8% cash back links.

I just posted on how to save money via Live.com search cash back program on HP, Circuitcity, Target, AT&T and eBay yesterday. According to the post, you can save 25% for shopping at above mentioned websites through Live.com search. It’s a great opportunity to save money during the holiday season. It would be great if you search at live.com first before you place the orders.

The shocking news is Microsoft live.com cash back program will be offering 40% cash back for shopping at hp.com on Black Friday! 40% is huge considering the cash back rate. The highest rate live.com offered is 35% at ebay.com. So how to get the 40% cash back?

Details about the promotion can be found at hp.com via the link.

According to the link, live.com will offer 40% cash back for shopping at hp.com from 7am to 7pm on Black Friday. Please remember the time is on PST, so that’s equal to 10am to 10pm EST.

Many may not know how to qualify for the promotion, here are some points:

1. Cash back excludes all gift cards and transactions that use coupon.
2. You do not need to pay with Paypal (this is for shopping at eBay.com only). Because live cash back works with credit cards or other payments. But you have to click the link at live.com to place the order.
3. There is no cash back limit, unlike eBay’s $200 limit. But you have to pay attention that there is a total of $2,500 total cash back limit per account per year.
4. This is an HP advertised special, so it will work 100% on anything with instant rebate and without EPP/APP/ Additional Coupons.

We all know that Microsoft live.com is offering huge cash back at eBay.com on “But it Now” items. This promotion have been running for a long time. My first report of this huge promotion is very popular in the past three months. Today, I realized that Microsoft is actually offering huge cash back for shopping at other popular electronic producers.

25% cash back for shopping at hp.com (and ebay.com)

This means if you click the link at live.com and then place your orders at hp.com (shopping.hp.com), you can get 25% cash back! This 25% cash back is the highest rate that I have ever seen. If you but a laptop through live.com, you actually get 25% off!

How to get the links at live.com?

It’s very simple. Search “hp” at live.com and you can see the link at the sponsored sites position.

20% cash back for shopping at circuitcity.com and target .com

If you search for “hp” at live.com, you can also see the link which leads you to the circuitcity.com and gives you 20% cash back. Another way to get the 20% cash back link is to search “iPod” and you can see the link at the right. You will be asked to enter your account email address when you are redirected to the circuitcity.com or target.com (if you haven’t logined to your account).

10% cash back at overstock.com

Search for “iPod” and you can get the 10% cash back link at the right (see above screen shot).

25% cash back at AT&T

Search AT&T at MSN.com or live.com and you can find the link which will lead you to a 25% cash back for shopping at AT&T.

Other huge cash back opportunities can be found at live.com/cashback. For example, footlocker.com is offering 20% cash back, and drugstore.com is offering 10% cash back (Currently, it’s offering 25% cash back. Search fish oil at live.com and a link with 25% cash back will appear at the right!).

It would be a good idea to search what you want to buy at live.com before you place your order at other places. Maybe you can get huge cash back for shopping through live.com.

Microsoft just increased their cash back rate today. For most merchants, the cash back has been doubled and you can even earn up to 70% cash back! At the same time, Microsoft live search is still offering 25% cash back for shopping at eBay through live search (up to 35% cash back from eBay via Microsoft live search cash back). With the new promotion, the cash back offered by live search is much higher compared to other popular cash back websites like Chase Rewards Plus, ShopDiscover, Fatwallet, and Ebates.

The promotion is named the “Back-to-School Deal Days”. If you want to save money by shopping online, this is the right time to pull the trigger! Normally, the back-to-school season is the second largest retail season of the year. And Microsoft is still competing with Yahoo for the second place in the search engine market.

According to Microsoft, the reason why they double the cash back rate is recent a survey from Deloitte found that during this back-to-school shopping season, 71 percent of households plan on spending less on back-to-school items than they have in previous years. With consumers feeling financial strain from higher gas and food prices, Live Search cashback is offering back-to-school shoppers extra savings to stretch their dollars further. When you are using the search engine at Live.com, actually, Microsoft can earn a huge amount of money by displaying sponsored advertisements.

Following are some examples of “huge cash back”

• 36% cash back from FootLocker.com
• 38% cash back from ShoeMall.com
• 70% cash back from Magazines.com
• 20% cash back from FinishLine.com
• 10-20% cash back from Lenovo.com
• 10% cash back from HP.com
• 16% cash back from A&E TV

Back-to-school savings start today and will run for a limited time during the month of August.

You can earn cash back every time you use Live Search cashback. For every qualifying purchase, you will be sent an e-mail message confirming the Live Search cashback savings. If you place your order through live search but never received the e-mail confirmation, you can contact Microsoft. The balance show up in your account can be requested via PayPal, check or direct deposit into a bank account.

Another point I want to mention here is: some of the merchants are using the links from JellyFish.com which is another famous social shopping website acquired by Microsoft in last October.

Take the chance to get extra savings with Live Search Cash Back now! Of course, don’t forget to pick up a great cash back credit card to save even more!