Software Store Blog

Windows 7 Upgrade is expected to become available for sale through the ITS Software Store beginning September 1, 2009: •Windows 7 Enterprise: Requires Software Assurance for Windows Client OS •Windows 7 Professional •Windows 7 Ultimate: Only available through Microsoft’s Student Select Program (i.e.

Windows 2008 R2 is expected to become available for sale through the ITS Software Store beginning September 1, 2009.

Microsoft is offering an Office 2007 Enterprise promotion to higher education. Office Enterprise is Microsoft’s most comprehensive Office offering. The promotion runs through October 31, 2009. As a result of the promotion: •The price for Office Standard and Office Professional have increased, and the price for Office Enterprise has decreased through Student Select.

The ITS Software Store has added DNASTAR Lasergene to its storefront.  Lasergene provides sequence analysis functionality to researchers.  The software is available on Windows and Macintosh platforms. The Lasergene product suite includes: SeqBuilder: visualization, sequence editing, Primer design and virtual cloning PrmerSelect: oligo primer design MegAlign: sequence alignment SeqMan: sequence assembly, Next-Gen sequence analysis and SNP discovery Protean: protein structure analys

The following Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista products have been reconfigured in the ITS Software Store with downloads that include Microsoft’s recently released Service Pack 2.

Windows 7 is expected to be released in the latter half of 2009. ZDnet has reported that computer manufacturers will begin offering no cost Vista to Windows 7 upgrades on July 1.  Microsoft is offering the following promotion to higher education to help foster Windows 7 adoption:

SAS Institute has released SAS 9.2.  9.2 is a free upgrade for those with active subscriptions to the SAS Education Analytic Suite.  Those eligible for the upgrade may access the free download by logging into the ITS Software Store and clicking on “My Software”.

Upgrade pricing for EndNote X2 and Reference Manager 12 is now available through the ITS Software Store. EndNote is a top selling Software Store product. We have a large installed base of earlier versions. If you are considering migrating to X2 and cannot “see” the product in the Store, please contact software.store@vanderbilt.edu for assistance. We will verify eligibility and provide your VUnet ID with “viewing rights” so that your department may take advantage of the discount.

Free eWaste Recycling Days Sponsored by East Tennessee State University, Tennessee Board of Regents, The University of Memphis and University of Tennessee - Knoxville Recycling Services Courtesy of Apple  

ITS is pleased to offer a Red Hat Enterprise Linux download and patch management service to the Vanderbilt community.