Software Store Blog

Microsoft has announced it will stop offering Office Standard and Office Enterprise through its Student Select program when Office 2010 becomes available. Office Professional Plus 2010 will be the only edition of Office offered through Student Select. Vanderbilt employees and students who purchase Office Standard, Professional Plus, or Enterprise 2007 through the ITS Software Store between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010 qualify for a free Office 2010 Professional Plus license.

Matlab R2010a has been released and may be installed for free by customers who have purchased active Matlab subscriptions through the ITS Software Store. Current subscribers may access their download by logging into the Software Store and clicking on My Software. Matlab R2010a supports Windows (32-bit and 64-bit), Mac OS X (Intel 32-bit and Intel 64-bit), and Linux (32-bit and 64-bit).

GeoTrust has alerted the ITS Software Store that it will upgrade its public root certificate authorities (CAs) in a few months. After this change takes effect, all SSL certificates purchased by Vanderbilt departments through the Software Store will be signed from the upgraded CA structure and hierarchy. The upgrade will increase the RSA key length, and related strength, of each CA from 1024-bit to 2048-bit.

Vanderbilt employees and students who purchase Office 2007 for personal use through the ITS Software Store between March 5th, 2010, and September 30th, 2010 qualify for a free upgrade to Office 2010.

Free Workshop: Data Analysis with JMP Statistical Discovery Software Location: 120 Wilson Hall Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Time: 11 a.m.

Office 2008 through Student Select is back in stock in the ITS Software Store (http://its.vanderbilt.edu/softwarestore). Vanderbilt employees and students can again place orders for personal use copies of Office 2008 for Macintosh under the “Faculty/Staff” and “Students” tabs respectively.

Office 2007 through Student Select is back in stock in the ITS Software Store (http://its.vanderbilt.edu/softwarestore). Vanderbilt employees and students can again place orders for personal use copies of Office 2007 Standard, Professional Plus, and Enterprise under the “Faculty/Staff” and “Students” tabs respectively. We expect Office 2008 for Mac through Student Select to be back in stock early next week.

The MathWorks has scheduled a free on-site demonstration for Vanderbilt’s MATLAB community: Topic: Speeding Up MATLAB Applications, including Parallel Computing Date/Time: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2-5 p.m. Location: 134 Featheringill Agenda: Presenter: Brett Shoelson, Ph.D., Principal Application Engineer Brett will demonstrate simple ways you can improve and optimize your code to boost execution speed by orders of magnitude.

Microsoft has sent notification that the following products cannot be sold through its Student Select program until non-infringing versions become available: Office Enterprise 2007 Suite (Student Select) Office Professional Plus 2007 Suite (Student Select) Office Standard2007 Suite (Student Select) Office 2008 for Mac (Student Select) As a result of this notice, the above products have been removed from the ITS Software Store. Microsoft has not released a date for when non-infringing versions will become available.

The Software Store has finished replacing the following products with non-infringing versions in the Software Store: •Word 2003 •Word 2007 •Office 2003 Standard •Office 2007 Standard •Office 2003 Professional •Office 2007 Professional Plus •Office 2007 Enterprise Please contact software.store@vanderbilt.edu if you have questions.