Software Store Blog

Vanderbilt adopted a new policy for registering, renewing and transferring university and medical center domain names on February 1, 2012.

Microsoft released Windows 8 during October 2012. Students pay $0 and employees pay $9.75 for Windows 8 through the Vanderbilt Software Store. These discounts are benefits of Vanderbilt’s Microsoft Campus Agreement.

The Vanderbilt Software Store (http://softwarestore.vanderbilt.edu) will start offering these Microsoft products to departments next month after pricing becomes available: •Office Professional Plus 2013 •Office Multilanguage Pack 2013 •Project Professional 2013 •Project Standard 2013 •Visio Professional 2013 •Visio Standard 2013 •SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise •SharePoint Server 2013 Standard •MapPoint 2013 MapPoint, Visio and Project are available through Vanderbilt’s Microsoft Select Agreement.

Vanderbilt employees and students can buy Office University 2010 for PC or Office University 2011 for Mac for $99.95 for personal use through the Vanderbilt Software Store. Starting early next year, Microsoft will replace these perpetual use products with Office 365 University. Office 365 University is a subscription based service that includes SkyDrive storage, Skype minutes and streaming Office.

Dell’s Black Friday for the Vanderbilt community is underway now and continues through Cyber Monday: •Black Friday: 11/23 •Black Friday Weekend Sale: 11/24-25 •Cyber Monday: 11/26 Shop at http://www.dell.com/dellu/vanderbiltu or call 800-695-8133.

Visit http://www.hpdirect.com/academy/Vanderbilt or call 800-632-8251 for pre-holiday offers from HP to the Vanderbilt community.

The Microsoft Holiday Store opens in the Green Hills Mall, Nashville today. Microsoft will showcase its Windows devices and Microsoft Surface.

Each Vanderbilt employee is eligible to buy one work at home copy of Windows 8 Professional Upgrade for $9.75 through the Vanderbilt Software Store. This is a benefit of Vanderbilt’s Microsoft Campus Agreement.

Vanderbilt students can get Microsoft Windows 8 Professional Upgrade through the Vanderbilt Software Store at no cost. Each student is eligible to order one copy of Windows 8 Upgrade. This is a benefit of Vanderbilt’s Microsoft Campus Agreement. See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview for information on Windows 8.

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