Downloading Windows 7 Online

Hello I was trying to set up my mac to be able to run windows 7 using bootcamp by downloading windows 7 off of a website my college uses to provide students with free access to microsoft products. The problem I am having is my mac won't open the windows file to start the download. I was considering downloading it on my friends pc and burning it to a cd. Is this the best way to get this to work? Thanks

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
sounds like your college allows downloading Windows 7 as a self-extracting Windows-executable .exe file.
These .exe files usually contain an .iso file which has to be burned on a DVD.
Since OSX can not run .exe files (these are Windows-executable only) your best choice would indeed be to find a friend with a Windows PC and do it on that computer or ask the IT-guys from your school if they can help.
OSX Disk Utility can burn .iso files quite well, but you need to extract it first from the .exe file.
Regards
Stefan

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