DEPRECATED PAGE. Grads used to have to buy Office if they wanted it on their personal computers. Microsoft has since changed their licensing of O365.What used to be the case:

  • As a student, you can get Office 365 for $80 for 4 years, including version coverage. Available at the Campus Store on on-line, same price.

When you don't have to buy the software

MS Office can be installed for free on any Cornell "institution-owned" computer, due to Cornell's license agreement with Microsoft. (A Cornell "institution-owned" computer is any computer purchased with any Cornell funds, or given to the University). University licensed software needs to be removed if the computer ownership is transferred.

Buying the software for use on YOUR computer

Office 365

As a student, you can get Office 365 for $80 for 4 years, including version coverage:

Also available at the Campus store, same price:

Office 365 questions: Let us know if you find answers, please.

  • Fat-client installs for Mac and Windows?
  • What happens at 4-year expiration?
    • If fat-client installs, do they continue working (frozen at the version you last updated to when you were within the 4-year term), and just access to MS Live gets cut off?

Traditional Office 2013

Office 2013 at the Campus store - $140

Mac version?

Historical note: The Campus store used to (recently!) sell Office (Office 2010) for $40. That's a big change in price!

Tentative idea, if possible: Buying the software for Chem grad's use

Work out a special arrangement in which Chemistry Graduate students can get the full MS Office suite for $9.95 for use on the grad's personally-owned computer. (Being worked on, Sept 2013.)

If employee-type grad students (not all CU grads, but all CCB grads) get staff access legally, this would be an option.

Here are the 2 steps the eligible Grad would have to take, if this use is approved:

1) Obtain the Microsoft Home Use Program Code.

  • Ideal: Get their NetIDs added to CU's access to the CIT-hosted page.
  • Non-ideal, but possible: Have dept. gate access to Code to eligible grad students, as clarified by this process.
    • In CCB, this might might be ChemIT. And/ or PatH's office. And or each Research Group's IT Representative. Or some other gating mechanism?

2) Purchase Microsoft Office Employee Home Use Program License. Link to purchase available at:

http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/software_licensing/available/ms_office.cfm#ms_hup

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