On Friday, June 13 (2003) the Board of Regents approved an agreement between the University of Minnesota and Microsoft Corporation to provide a suite of Microsoft's most popular software for use on computers that are owned by the University of Minnesota. Academic & Distributed Computing Services (ADCS) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) will be administering this license. At UMM, the license will be administered by UMM Computing Services. The starting date for this license is July 1, 2003 and the University is committed to at least a 3-year term for these products.

The software that is available through this agreement includes the following:

• Windows operating system upgrades
• Microsoft Office XP Professional
• Microsoft Office for Macintosh
• Front Page
• Publisher
• Visual Studio.net
• All Windows Client Access Licenses (CALs), including SQL CAL

PLEASE NOTE: It is important that departments not purchase this software through any other means. Licenses for these products have been paid for already and the software may be used legally on any computers that are owned by the University of Minnesota. Separate purchases are unnecessary and wasteful.

More details about the agreement are available at this page: http://www.umn.edu/adcs/site/MSagree.html