Campus Computing News

Office 2007 Available to UNT Employees at a Reduced Price

By Dr. Maurice Leatherbury, Associate Vice President for Computing and Chief Technology Officer, Computing and Information Technology Center

Under the Microsoft Campus Agreement that the Computing and Information Technology Center purchases for the campus each year, UNT is able to distribute Microsoft Office 2007 for home use by employees of the University. That product is now available in the general books section of the UNT Bookstore for a cost of $14.00.

The version of Office 2007 that we are allowed to distribute is the Enterprise version, which contains:

Access 2007
Word 2007
Excel 2007
Outlook 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Groove 2007
InfoPath 2007
OneNote 2007
Communicator 2007 (this product isn't on the distribution disk, but Microsoft says it will be available some time soon)

A few caveats about Office 2007 for home use:

The software is on a DVD disk, so you'll have to have a DVD drive in your computer to install the suite.
Colleges and departments are planning their rollouts of the Office 2007 suite to occur at various times over the next year or even longer. That means that you might not have any support in your department for that version of the common applications you use for some time.
Some of the applications on the disk (Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, and Communicator) aren't used on campus at this time and computer support personnel on campus probably won't be able to provide any help to you if you want to try them out.
The campus will be using Outlook 2007 as our e-mail interface by this Fall, and we're investigating how to "unbundle" Outlook from the whole suite so that we can distribute it without cost to those of you who want to put it on your home machine but don't want to purchase the suite. We haven't solved that problem yet, but I'm pretty confident that we can do so.
There are file format differences between some of these products and earlier versions, particularly Word. While Word 2007 can write files in Word 2003 format, you have to change the settings on Word 2007 to make that happen.
You don't need Windows Vista to run Office 2007, but you have to have at least Windows XP. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA101668651033.aspx for the system requirements.

Originally published, May 2007 -- Please note that information published in Benchmarks Online is likely to degrade over time, especially links to various Websites. To make sure you have the most current information on a specific topic, it may be best to search the UNT Website - http://www.unt.edu . You can also search Benchmarks Online - http://www.unt.edu/benchmarks/archives/back.htm as well as consult the UNT Helpdesk - http://www.unt.edu/helpdesk/ Questions and comments should be directed to benchmarks@unt.edu

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