So I'm going to be a college freshman come fall and have been browsing how to get a cheaper student copy of windows. I've found a student download of windows and was wondering how to go about it. I'm intending to install this in a new build and was wondering if this is only an upgrade offer or if I could download this to a usb and install it this way. If the offer is only an upgrade I was wondering if I could install a copy of windows 7 without a product key and then upgrade that without any issue.
http://www.journeyed.com/item/Microsoft/Windows+8.1/1557102
http://www.journeyed.com/item/Microsoft/Windows+8.1/1557102