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Whats the Catch in ICAI Parivartan Offer regarding Windows 7

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So there may be many smiles on the face of students and members by knowing about the PARIVARTAN Offer brought by ICAI.

The said so looking mouth watering offer is really not without a CATCH.

Clearly reading the offer says that the scheme is valid for just 1 year. That means what you pay will just give you a legal license for 1 year. After 1 year you need to again pay to get license. 


How much you need to pay? Not sure the prices may go up may go down. Whatever the price be you have to pay to renew license. Its like having a Anti-virus kind of a software. renew it yearly ;(


Well the tag line given by ICAI that it had  collabrated with Microsoft bring a lot of doubt in my mind.

The reason MIcrosoft had already started its program for students.

They have a dedicated website   https://www.dreamspark.com/ which allows students to get Absolutely Free most of MS products without charging anything.

Just need to verify that you are a student and yes its all FREE.


Another Catch is that it is not Windows 7 that many of us might be using in our system.

You need to have a licensed original lower version and then n then only you can Upgrade it to Windows 7 enterprise.


Its really good for those who want to have licensed versions as the original cost for just office 2010 costs you around 16000 bucks.


Hope the above info is helpful.

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Yeah.. Thanks for Sharing.. :)

Thank you

Read Carefully

 

 

Does a purchaser need to pay an annual fee or a onetime fee?

In order to procure a license, a purchaser needs to pay a onetime annual fee. All licenses are eligiblePage 8 of 8

Frequently Asked Questions  on Microsoft’s offer to ICAI for free support for one year. Thereafter, to get any upgraded version, a renewal fee is to be paid (its like getting windows 8 i.e. upgraded version.)

However, security patches will be provided free of cost.

Will these be a lifetime?

License would become perpetual (everlasting) after completion of course.

 

only support is for one year. Licenses are everlasting

GOD knows what the hell It is!!!      If you try to register now, it says that

"MICROSOFT HAS WITHDRAWN THE OFFER".  I had paid the Amount more than a month ago, till today nothing has turned up!
 

I just got my license. Cheers:)

Originally posted by : Gopal

I just got my license. Cheers

Plz share if you have been able to download - and how much time it took to download ?

yes. But speeds are truly sucking. Hardly 5-6 kbps speed on my 21 MBPS 3G HSPA + connection.Seems that lot of load on server as the link has been released yesterday itself.. 3.88 GB file.

Originally posted by : Gopal

yes. But speeds are truly sucking. Hardly 5-6 kbps speed on my 21 MBPS 3G HSPA + connection.Seems that lot of load on server as the link has been released yesterday itself.. 3.88 GB file.

 

How many hours did it take?Is the download resummable? And does the download originate from ICAI server or any other server?

 

I am asking this primarily because at my place there is scheduled power shut down for two to three hours everyday. And I am really nonplussed at the sheer size of download .

 

My experience with ICAI servers is very bad. They dont let multthread downloads - and they dont let download of even multiple files together. One can download only one file at a time !

Originally posted by : Gopal

yes. But speeds are truly sucking. Hardly 5-6 kbps speed on my 21 MBPS 3G HSPA + connection.Seems that lot of load on server as the link has been released yesterday itself.. 3.88 GB file.
Originally posted by : .A.M.



Originally posted by : Gopal




yes. But speeds are truly sucking. Hardly 5-6 kbps speed on my 21 MBPS 3G HSPA + connection.Seems that lot of load on server as the link has been released yesterday itself.. 3.88 GB file.




 
How many hours did it take?Is the download resummable? And does the download originate from ICAI server or any other server?
 
I am asking this primarily because at my place there is scheduled power shut down for two to three hours everyday. And I am really nonplussed at the sheer size of download .
 
My experience with ICAI servers is very bad. They dont let multthread downloads - and they dont let download of even multiple files together. One can download only one file at a time !

File is hosted at ICAI server which truly sucks. Yes link is resumable (because ICAI also know their server speed). Speed is 5 kbps during day & 20-30 kbps in night in 3G. So its going to take almost a month i guess if it goes at current speed levels.

My downloader shows that at such abysmal speed it will take nearly 400 to 450 hours (daytime) to download !

 

(i had estimated that it might take 6 to 7 hours at a stretch - but this might take at least a couple of weeks of night time download)

 

So thats our beloved institute - that teaches us the fineries of system audit and how systems should be kept upto date!

 

Yes downloads are resummable. However, what concerns is that as this is RAR file type - these are pretty much prone to file corruption if stop - resume operations are done on them many times.

Can anybody post the download link

Pay 945 Rs. to ICAI and get the link rather than telling others to share their license.

Originally posted by : Gopal

Pay 945 Rs. to ICAI and get the link rather than telling others to share their license.

I had paid the amount 2 months back, waiting for the licence. i asked for the link to download the software atleast..


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