Friday, September 26

Microsoft Office available free for all UD Students

Everyone may already know this, but just in case, I think it is worth mentioning on here.  Over the summer, UD joined Microsoft's Student Advantage Program.  This means that all the Microsoft Office applications are free to download and use on your personal computers and devices as long as you are enrolled as a UD Student.  The deal includes Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS.
The only thing to be aware of is that the newest versions of these programs offer tight integration with Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive), but the University of Delaware deal does not include any cloud storage.  But don't despair! To compete with Google, Microsoft is giving away 15 GB free storage just for signing up with them.  I used my personal gmail, and it worked.  Here is the address to sign up if you are interested: http://onedrive.live.com/
It is useful to have this account for other new features of Office 2013, like sharing a PowerPoint automatically to an online audience. 

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