Microsoft allows use of select software for education and research, including their operating systems and programming tools.
FYI: Microsoft renamed DreamSpark to Microsoft Imagine on September 7, 2016:
MS's lists which departments at Cornell offer DreamSpark Premium:
- https://www.dreamspark.com/Student/Default.aspx?tab=2#TabbedPanels1
- N.B. Everyone at CU, campus-wide, is eligible for DreamSpark Standard.
Chemistry Department and MS DreamSpark
Chemistry IT signed up, at no cost, for a Microsoft DreamSpark Premium subscription to benefit Chemistry Department educators, researchers, and graduate students in October 2013. One benefit, for example, is that Chemistry Department graduate students can now get a copy of the current version of Windows ($40-200) on their personal laptops, for free (one licensed copy per OS level). As well as other Microsoft software.
- Add your NetID to CCB's DreamSpark — Occasionally someone will need to have their NetID added to CCB's DreamSpark. Here's how.
- CCB enrollment list for DreamSpark — Your NetID credentials are required to get to see this list.
- Chemistry IT's MS Imagine (was DreamSpark) enrollment process — Chemistry IT staff can ad hoc add individuals or bulk-add lots of people. This page explains how.
DreamSpark licensing rules and interpretations
ChemIT has highlighted some of the MS DreamSpark program licensing rules on this page. And Oliver has documented his interpretation, FWIW.
Microsoft DreamSpark Admin
Everyone at Cornell can access "DreamSpark Standard" for free. STEM use for research and teaching can also get "DreamSpark Premium" for free, under Cornell's MS site-license agreement (versus $499 enrollment + annual renewal fee). ChemIT's subscription expires 2017-10-16.
- CU's DreamSpark promo code and Campus Agreement number — For Cornell staff only: DreamSpark Premium promo code, Cornell's Microsoft license number, and the DreamSpark program contact.
- Renewal notes from Astrophysics — Bez's summary, with screen shots, of the process for renewing Microsoft Imagine, formerly known as Dreamspark.
MS DreamSpark licensing history at CCB
If CCB pays for a subscription and administers permission lists, CCB faculty and students get professional developer tools and software from Microsoft via downloads.