Software Store Blog

GeoTrust has alerted the ITS Software Store that it will upgrade its public root certificate authorities (CAs) in a few months. After this change takes effect, all SSL certificates purchased by Vanderbilt departments through the Software Store will be signed from the upgraded CA structure and hierarchy. The upgrade will increase the RSA key length, and related strength, of each CA from 1024-bit to 2048-bit.

Vanderbilt employees and students who purchase Office 2007 for personal use through the ITS Software Store between March 5th, 2010, and September 30th, 2010 qualify for a free upgrade to Office 2010.

Free Workshop: Data Analysis with JMP Statistical Discovery Software Location: 120 Wilson Hall Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Time: 11 a.m.

Office 2008 through Student Select is back in stock in the ITS Software Store (http://its.vanderbilt.edu/softwarestore). Vanderbilt employees and students can again place orders for personal use copies of Office 2008 for Macintosh under the “Faculty/Staff” and “Students” tabs respectively.

Office 2007 through Student Select is back in stock in the ITS Software Store (http://its.vanderbilt.edu/softwarestore). Vanderbilt employees and students can again place orders for personal use copies of Office 2007 Standard, Professional Plus, and Enterprise under the “Faculty/Staff” and “Students” tabs respectively. We expect Office 2008 for Mac through Student Select to be back in stock early next week.

The MathWorks has scheduled a free on-site demonstration for Vanderbilt’s MATLAB community: Topic: Speeding Up MATLAB Applications, including Parallel Computing Date/Time: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2-5 p.m. Location: 134 Featheringill Agenda: Presenter: Brett Shoelson, Ph.D., Principal Application Engineer Brett will demonstrate simple ways you can improve and optimize your code to boost execution speed by orders of magnitude.

Microsoft has sent notification that the following products cannot be sold through its Student Select program until non-infringing versions become available: Office Enterprise 2007 Suite (Student Select) Office Professional Plus 2007 Suite (Student Select) Office Standard2007 Suite (Student Select) Office 2008 for Mac (Student Select) As a result of this notice, the above products have been removed from the ITS Software Store. Microsoft has not released a date for when non-infringing versions will become available.

The Software Store has finished replacing the following products with non-infringing versions in the Software Store: •Word 2003 •Word 2007 •Office 2003 Standard •Office 2007 Standard •Office 2003 Professional •Office 2007 Professional Plus •Office 2007 Enterprise Please contact software.store@vanderbilt.edu if you have questions.

Microsoft has notified Vanderbilt that on December 22, 2009, a United States court of appeals ruled that Microsoft must stop selling versions of Word and Office that infringe on a United States patent. The injunction only applies to licenses purchased after January 10, 2010. The ITS Software Store is in the process of downloading updated Word 2003, Word 2007, Office 2003 and Office 2007 products which remove the disputed custom XML tagging functionality.

A new e-Learning benefit has been added to SAS software subscriptions sold through the ITS Software Store. The new benefit provides access to five self-paced courses: •SAS Programming Introduction: Basic Concepts •Advanced SAS Programming •SAS Programming 1: Essentials •SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Technologies •Querying, Reporting, and Analyzing Data Using SAS Enterprise Guide The courses are accessed through SAS Institute’s website.