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MSDN Academic Alliance
The MSDN Academic Alliance is the easiest and most inexpensive way for academic departments to make the latest Microsoft software available in labs, classrooms, and on student PCs. A department receives an MSDNAA subscription that includes Microsoft platform, servers, and developer tools software. This software may be installed on any number of departmental lab machines.

DreamSpark
DreamSpark is about giving students direct access to Microsoft professional tools at no charge. In addition to software this site provides links to training resources such as labs and product videos.



What about software direct from Faculty Connection?

Software direct to Faculty from Faculty Connection has been discontinued at this time. At Microsoft, we want to ensure compliance with all applicable government gift and ethics rules, which restrict/prohibit government employees (Federal, State, Local, Military, and Education) from accepting gifts from entities doing or seeking official business with the public sector. What is considered a "gift" varies widely, but generally includes business-use giveaway items, free business-use software or other items of value. To comply with these regulations we have had to remove the ability to provide software directly to faculty from Faculty Connection.


Tools and Services from Microsoft Research

  • Database, HPC, and Cloud Services for Scientists
    MSR is collaborating with university scientists, researchers at Microsoft Research, and developers in Microsoft product teams to expand the tools and services for scientists who need to mine large datasets and store and share data in the cloud.

  • Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench
    Author workflows visually by using a catalog of existing activities and complete workflows. The workbench provides a tiered library that hides the complexity of different workflow activities and services.

  • Dryad and DryadLINQ Academic Release
    Dryad is a high-performance, general-purpose, distributed-computing engine that simplifies the task of implementing distributed applications on clusters of computers running a Windows® operating system.

  • Publication and Conference Management for Scientists
    MSR is collaborating with researchers in academia, industry, and government to support researchers with tools and services for publishing scientific findings and managing conferences.

  • Managing Scientific Workflows
    Workflows allow scientists to harness information technologies to accelerate scientific discovery. Scientific workflows can be used to drive workflow automation, optimization, and reproducible results.

  • Software and Tools for Scientific Research
    View this page to see the software and tools available from Microsoft Research for scientific research.

  • Microsoft Computational Biology Web Tools
    Multiple tools and programs from Microsoft Research are available to download.

  • Tools for Computational Science
    Dozens of tools from Microsoft Research and MSR’s research partners to support computational science and its use in other research disciplines.

  • Microsoft Office Add-ins for Scientists
    Working with members of the research community and developers in the Microsoft Office Product group, MSR is developing a series of technologies for scientists to advance semantic knowledge discovery.

  • Tools for Web Search Research
    Microsoft Research has teams worldwide focusing on advancing the way users interact with computing devices.



Software Product Guides for Use in Class

  • Free Tools for Faculty
    Free tools from Microsoft. Engage your students, energize a lesson plan, and save time using free tools for photos, videos, collaboration and education.

  • Microsoft OneNote 2010
    Discover tips on helpful ways to refresh your lessons, manage class assignments, make quick work of daily tasks, and share information with colleague and students.

  • Discover Bing
    Find what you need quickly in a visually dynamic and organized way. Make lecture presentations more visually dynamic.

  • Windows 7 Faculty Guide
    Improve collaboration and increase productivity with students and other faculty using Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Office Word, and Office OneNote.

  • Microsoft Office Faculty Guide
    Improve collaboration and increase productivity with students and other faculty using Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Office Word, and Office OneNote.

  • Windows Live Movie Maker
    Turn photos and video clips into great-looking movies and photo slide shows that you can share with students or other faculty.

  • Office Web Apps
    View, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents from a web browser using Web Apps.