Usually, those 29.99 price is just a upgrade price. And this is not a market price where u buy in retail stores. It can be bought in that price online, Maybe?....I am not sure. But chcek your college Computer stores or their online Software download sites. They are always cheap, and is only given to students. I usually find someone to get one for me from the college. I just found out that UTA is selling for 34.99 to their students. Also, As _Nepali has mentioned you can get DVD or download online for free if ur college participates on MSDN Academic Alliance programme. North Lake College participates on this programme and I found out that they usually give a DVD to take home and install. This is the location information @ T225 building.

Guys, can u share ur experinece during the Upgrade as lady from North Lake COllege warned me --- Now I am thinking whether to do upgrade or not. Basically she told me to keep all the backups of documents and even my others programmes and software too. I thought this is just a upgrade process, not a new installation, so it shouldn't interfer with all things that I alreday have in my computer.