University of Southern Maine

Department of Computer Science (COS)
Microsoft Developer Network - Academic Alliance

The Department of Computer Science has subscribed to the Microsoft Developer Network's Academic Alliance program. This program allows us to put many Microsoft products in our computer labs. It also allows us to distribute them to computer science students and faculty. The MSDNAA.net web site has lots of additional information and coding resources.

The administration and distribution of software is done by a third party site, e-academy. Students who meet the required criteria as stated below, need to contact the administrator o...@cs.usm.maine.edu in order to have their account activated on e-academy.

The software is provided in two formats, images that can be downloaded and installed (using a special client from e-academy) and ISO image files that need to be burned on a CD-R or DVD-R depending on size of image. Ensure you pick the right format before downloading the files -- they are very large!

To qualify you must be currently enrolled in a computer science class (courses beginning with the COS prefix) numbered 285 or above.

Product keys will be mailed to you after downloading software.

We are specifically NOT providing CD checkout or local copies of this software due to the administrative overhead it entails. Internet download is the only option for acquiring this software for free!

Department of Computer Science
117 Science Building * Portland, Maine * 04104-9600
(207) 780-4499
email: office@cs.usm.maine.edu

03.17.2009