Free Microsoft software (MSDNAA) signup available

Lloyd Smith

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Feb 7, 2007, 5:16:11 PM2/7/07

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The Department is a participant in the MSDNAA -- Microsoft Developer
Network Academic Alliance -- which provides MS software free of charge
to students for instructional purposes, please note: "Developer"
software, eg. Visual Studio, not "Productivity" software (i.e. Office)
nor games.

In previous years students had to sign the CD's out from the Software
Office in Robarts, but you can now sign up for your own account. To
begin, send mail to:

msdnaa-opt-...@cdf.toronto.edu

(The subject and body can be empty, no one is going to read it). You
will get a confirmation message you must reply to for the account
creation process to begin. You must send this from your CDF account,
in order that we can confirm you are eligible for the program.

Your account will be valid for one term, if you still meet the
eligibility requirements you can sign up again next term.

For a description of what the MSDNAA entails see
http://www.utoronto.ca/ic/software/detail/msdnaa.html but two
relevent exerpts from the legalese are

* You may use the software for noncommercial purposes including
instructional use, research and /or design, development and testing of
projects for class assignment and tests or personal projects. You may not
use the Program software for any for-profit software development.

* When you are no longer a registered student in a department that is
a member of the MSDNA, you may no longer receive updates for your personal
use computer. However, you may continue to use previously installed
software on your computer, provided you continue to follow program
guidelines.

We hope you find this useful.

Regards,
lloyd

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Lloyd Smith <ll...@cs.toronto.edu>
CDF SysAdmin
Department of Computer Science

Mak Angus Pui Yin

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Feb 8, 2007, 8:56:23 PM2/8/07

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Xhabija Dritan

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Feb 9, 2007, 6:17:58 PM2/9/07

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Hurrah!! Yay for CS Dept!!!!

g4wang

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Feb 10, 2007, 12:12:05 AM2/10/07

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It will be perfect if vista is in dvd image format.
5 ISOs, installing an OS you have to switch CDs for 4 times, you cannot
leave the computer alone while it is copying data.

But still good coz it's FREE!

Thuan Ta

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Feb 11, 2007, 7:24:08 PM2/11/07

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I'm not going to say this explicitly because it is a grey area and I
don't want to jeopardize our [free] access to MSDNAA. But here's a hint:

All Vista DVDs/CDs being shipped are exactly the same. So it doesn't
matter if you're using the business edition, home, or ultimate, the DVD
media is all the same. What determines which version you have is the
product key that you used.

Hope that helps...

Thuan

Lloyd Smith

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Feb 21, 2007, 12:35:56 AM2/21/07

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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, g4wang wrote:

> It will be perfect if vista is in dvd image format.
> 5 ISOs, installing an OS you have to switch CDs for 4 times, you cannot leave
> the computer alone while it is copying data.
>

cd images are provided because people with dvd burners can use cd images,
but not the other way around. I don't see any reason one couldn't combine
the 5 iso's onto a dvd, but I haven't tried.

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g4wang

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Mar 1, 2007, 7:42:49 PM3/1/07

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MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 has 3 CDs.
But we only got CD1 and CD2 on the site.

Albert Yu Cheong LAI

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Mar 7, 2007, 6:43:23 PM3/7/07

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g4wang <g4wang@cdf> writes:

> It will be perfect if vista is in dvd image format.
> 5 ISOs, installing an OS you have to switch CDs for 4 times, you
> cannot leave the computer alone while it is copying data.

Reminds me of the old days when MSDOS 6 was like five floppies,
Windows about ten, OS/2 about fifteen, and Linux up to eighty.

(I am aware that I am responding to an old post.)