MSDNAA Software License Highlights
OVERVIEW
The goal of the MSDN is to provide the development community with the
latest tools and information to enable the rapid creation of innovative new
applications. The MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) is a special program to
provide academic institutions, faculty, and students with leading-edge tools
at a very low cost. Microsoft donated this licensing program to the
College of Engineering starting during the 2002 fiscal year.
The products covered by this licensing program are available to College of Engineering students and faculty for instructional use and/or non-commercial research use ONLY. In addtion, the software that is part of this program may not be used to run the infrastructure of departments, or other units, of the College. Instructional purposes are defined as, "conducting educational classes, labs, or related programs for teaching and/or learning the products or concepts related to the products that are part of this program." Examples include: classes on software development, introduction to programming languages, systems design and analysis, relevant mathematics courses, relevant science courses, or relevant engineering courses. Research purposes are defined as, "conducting not-for-profit research projects."
- MSDN Library
Contains technical articles and tool documentation, SDK documentation, DDK documentation, royalty-free sample applications, and Microsoft Developer Knowledge Base (bug fixes and code workarounds). - Microsoft Operating Systems, SDKs and DDKs
Includes all the latest releases, including Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium. - Microsoft Server Platforms
Including Windows 2000 Server, Exchange Server, Commerce Server, SQL Server, Systems Management Server, Application Center 2000, BizTalk Server, and Host Integration Server. - Microsoft Visual Studio® Professional Edition
Including Visual Basic®, Visual C++®, Visual FoxPro® Visual J++®, and Visual SourceSafe®. - Microsoft Visio 2000
Visio, the premiere Microsoft diagramming application for technical schematics, network, software, and database design.
- The software that is part of this license is restricted to instructional use and/or non-commercial research use ONLY.
- The software that is part of this license may not be used to run the infrastructure of any units of the College of Engineering.
- Students must be taking at least one for-credit course within the College of Engineering in order to be able to download and install software under this license.
- Students and faculty who leave the College are able to continue to use software from this license that was loaded on their machines PRIOR to their departure from the College. This software may only be used for purposes specified by the MSDNAA EULA.
- Software distribution to faculty and students is done through the electronic license management system (ELMS) maintained by E-Academy.
- Students, faculty, and staff are authorized to download software through the ELMS system after DROP/ADD at the start of each semester. Your gatorlink email address ([gatorlink id]@ufl.edu) serves as your login id (your initial password will be emailed to this address when you are authorized).
- By using the software available through this licensing program you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of the end-user license agreement (EULA). Be sure to read and understand the license agreement and the program usage guidelines (quick links are provided on the left for easy reference).
- MSDN Academic Alliance Web Site
A wide variety of resources are available through the MSDNAA website ( http://www.msdnaa.net), including: a resource database, shared code and project centers, technical articles, curriculum and textbook lists, web casts or Internet Chats and various special offers - MSDN Online
A wide variety of the MSDN Online ( http://www.msdn.microsoft.com) resources are available to Academic Alliance members, including: code center, bug center, DLL help database, MSDN support online, MSDN online newsgroups, and Members Helping Members.
