Software Licensing & Availability

View the Campus Software Catalog for a complete listing of software available at UW-W.

What software is provided for faculty and staff office computers?

The following software is licensed for installation on university-owned computers through campus site licenses.

Included in default installation of new computers:

• Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook)
• Microsoft Office 2007 will be available beginning mid-October 2007
• Microsoft Office Standard 2004 for Mac (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• McAfee VirusScan (Antivirus) for Windows and Mac

Site-licensed software available upon request:

• SPSS for Windows (Base, Advanced, Regression, Answer Tree, Trends)
• SPSS for Mac (Base, Advanced, Regression)
  • Note:
    • campus owns a limited number of Mac SPSS licenses
    • There is not yet a version of SPSS supported for Intel-based Macs; SPSS15 for the Mac, the Intel-based version, is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2007.
• Visual Studio: Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual Inter Dev, and Visual J++

Is other software provided at reduced prices?

Software is available at discounted prices to university departments through UW System licensing , especially Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Professional, Dreamweaver, Flash, Robodemo, etc.)

How do I get the software?

• New university-owned computers will have MS office and anti-virus software installed before delivery.
• For other campus site-licensed software, contact the Helpdesk (x4357 or helpdesk@uww.edu) to arrange the software installation for your office computer.
• Adobe and Macromedia products can be purchased by departments at reduced prices. Contact Greg Roehl in iCIT (x1901 or roehlg@uww.edu) or set up a depeartmental account and purchase throughtthe Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalog: http://www.wisc.edu/wisc/

Home use for Faculty and Staff

Work At Home (WAH) media are available for home use on on personally-owned computers of faculty and staff:

• MS Windows XP Pro and Vista
• MS Office 2003 and Office 2004 for Mac
• Office 2007 media will be available in mid-October 2007
• McAfee Antivirus
• SPSS
• Adobe products, if purchased through WISC

Work At Home media is available at the Helpdesk:

• Bring your University ID to the Helpdesk to get a free copy of the WAH media
• You will need sign a compliance form to agree to licensing requirements

Note: Home use of the site licensed software or WISC software mentioned here remains legal as long as current contracts are in effect and you remain a UWW employee. If you should leave university employment, you are required to remove the software from your personally-owned computer.

Another option to obtain home use of the Microsoft Office Suite and Windows upgrades is teh personal purchase program through WISC (http://wiscsoftware.wisc.edu/wisc). UWW faculty and staff may purchase the MS products at greatly reduced prices. While there is a cost associated with this option, it means that you own the software even if you were to leave the university.

Software for Students

UWW site licensed software is available for student use in the campus general access labs and the departmental student computing labs.

Students may purchase software for personally-owned systems at greatly reduced prices from the Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalog: http://www.wisc.edu/wisc/. From the WISC site, students may purchase either of the MS Office suites, Windows upgrades, products from Adobe and academic software from a number of other vendors.

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