Microsoft Campus Agreement

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Microsoft Campus Agreement
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New Agreement Model

• Moving to a model where Higher Ed executes the
  agreement and member institutions can enroll in
  it.
• The agreement will be executed in June which
  means that we need to start the enrollment
  process no later than the first of May.
• As incentive to enroll early, MS is offering an
  additional 8.3 (1/12) discount.

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Campus Agreement Desktop

• Basic Campus Agreement includes
• Windows upgrade Remember, can only be used on a
  machine that came with an approved OEM license.
• Office Pro (includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
  Access, Outlook, InfoPath, Communicator)
• Publisher
• Core Client Access Licenses (CAL) Windows
  server, Exchange server, SharePoint, Systems
  Management Server

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Notable License Changes

• Products no longer part of the Desktop bundle-
  Frontpage- VisualStudio.net
• Products to be added- OneNote
• Departments can enroll individually in orderto
  purchase software not part of the Desktop

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Pricing

• We don't have new pricing on this yet.
• Current price under old license is 53.00
• Select pricing of components is 185.
• Remember select you own, campus agreement you
  lease.

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Considerations

• Office 12/2007 release in November 06
• Vista release in January 07

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Vista

• Version available to the U is Enterprise
• Will have two flavors, Vista and IGER for legacy
  systems
• Includes Virtual PC which allows you to run 1
  instance at a time of another OS

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Other Licensing Programs

• Student Select
• Allows faculty, staff, students to purchase
  product for home use
• Academic Alliance
• Allows classes in engineering, computer science,
  and information science that use MS products in
  the course of teaching the class to use the
  products for free.
• Must register.
• License expires at the end of the semester and
  copies of software must be destroyed.