| Newsletter 11, February 1996 |
We have renewed the Microsoft (MS) Select deal through CHEST, and will continue to supply MS listed software to LMU users at discounted rates. You should continue to send your orders to Computing Purchasing as usual, but please check with me first for latest prices and for availability of a particular package and/or manuals.
We have negotiated a 15% discount off the licences and maintenance prices offered by Microsoft to educational establishments from our new MS Reseller, and these discounts will be passed on to you.
All new and previously-purchased MS Applications software (not DOS) can be registered for maintenance to receive upgrades for the next two years. Maintenance prices vary but are roughly half the price of the package, and cover a two-year period.
Maintenance Plus, which is double the Maintenance price, is available for most applications software (not Windows) if you want to take advantage of concurrency (see later). Maintenance Plus also allows a network user to have a free copy for their portable/home computer. If you register your MS applications software with me by June, you can have Maintenance Plus at the same price as Maintenance. All previously purchased Microsoft software should be registered for maintenance by end of June 1996.
This applies to network users. Microsoft say that you have to buy the same number of user licences for a particular software as the number of nodes in a network, unless you buy Maintenance Plus and have metering software in place. (Purchases under the previous agreement retain concurrency as long as the software is not upgraded).
As was the case previously, any certified user who has bought a Microsoft software licence for their office computer is entitled to a free second copy to use on his/her home computer under the terms of the same licence. You will have to sign a copyright statement and buy a set of disks from us to install on your home machine.
Available to full/part-time registered students for an initial period of six months are Microsoft vouchers to obtain Student Packs, including licence, media and other information — but not manuals.
The initial 5 products offered in student packs are: Windows 95/NT, Office 95/Mac, Developers Tools (Visual Basic & Visual C++ Pro), Works 95/Mac and Publisher 95/Mac. Watch out for further details in The News and posters in the IT suites.
Staff may also be able to buy these products for their private use under another scheme yet to be announced. Watch this space!
Azmat Khan