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  Agreement Plan for Employee Home Use

The University of North Texas has entered into an agreement with Microsoft that allows UNT employees to take certain Microsoft software home, install it on their home or portable computer, and use it as long as they work for UNT and as long as UNT continues the Campus Agreement.

Purchases under this agreement are made at the University Bookstore located in the General Books and Software area. At the time of purchase you will be asked to sign an agreement stating you have read all the items below and understand what you may and may not do with this software under the terms of the Agreement between the University of North Texas and Microsoft.

These are the certain contractual obligations between the University and Microsoft that you must agree to before you may make use of this software:
    1. This is a lease program - you DO NOT own the software. The software is owned by Microsoft and must be removed from your computer and the media destroyed when the agreement is terminated or the University no longer employs you. Upon leaving UNT, there is an item on Human Resources' exit interview that attests to the fact that you have removed the software and destroyed the media.
    2. You are not buying the media - rather you are paying transfer and processing fees that are necessary to allow you to put the code on your computer and allow us to track the software for Microsoft. When you obtain products, your selections will be entered into a database and tracked until you certify you have removed them from your computer and destroyed the media.
    3. The specific terms of the Campus Agreement regarding the home use of the software reads: "Faculty and staff also have the right to run one copy of the software, for school related activities, on either a laptop or desktop that they own or lease." You may therefore obtain only one copy of each product, for your own use to conduct University-related activities.
    4. Fees involved: You may obtain any of the software in the program that you desire. The current fee for each CD is $7.00. Some products are on more than one CD.

The products and the number of CDs required for each product in the program are:

Operating Systems Upgrades for Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 Professional - one CD each.

Office Products: Office 97 Pro for Windows, Office 98 for Macintosh, Office 2001 for Macintosh, Office 10 for Macintosh, FrontPage 98 for Windows, FrontPage for Macintosh, and Microsoft Office Step By Step Interactive for Windows tutorial each are on one CD. Office 2000 Pro for Windows, FrontPage 2000, and FrontPage 2002 each are on two CDs. Office XP uses three CDs.

Visual Studio Professional on nine CDs which include Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual Fox Pro, Visual Basic, and a subset of Visual Interdev and Visual Studio.Net on 7CDs. The products cannot be separated because there are too many common libraries between them.

    5 . Restrictions: Microsoft owns and controls all copyrights. -You cannot rent, lease, lend, or in any way pass control of this software to any other individual or entity. -You can only install this software on your own personal computer. -You cannot reverse engineer any of this software. -You cannot export any of this software out of the country. -You cannot use this software to create a product that either you personally or any entity under your full or partial control -profits from financially. The software is provided for you to be able to do University-related work at home.

    6. User Support: Neither the Computing Center nor Microsoft will provide you with installation or technical support for any of these products installed on your home computer.
    7. Software Updates: Microsoft will update software under the Agreement periodically. As long as the agreement is in effect and you are an employee of the University, you may obtain those updates in the same manner as you obtained this software for the then current transaction and processing fees per CD.
    8. Patches, Fixes, Service Packs, etc.: It is highly recommended that you apply all appropriate patches, fixes, and service releases to all the software that you use. All of these are available from Microsoft at their Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/ . The following partial list of products requires one or more of the above: Windows NT Desktop, Windows 2000 Pro, Office 2000, Office XP, Internet Explorer, and Outlook (the last two programs have patches in addition to service packs in their respective Office Suites).