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Minitab 17 Available
Nov. 13, 2014—Vanderbilt faculty and students are eligible to buy Minitab 17, Minitab Express, and Minitab Quality Companion 3 through the Software Store. Six-month subscriptions cost $29.99. Twelve-month subscriptions cost $49.99. See http://www.minitab.com/en-us/academic/ for teaching resources.
Microsoft offers .NET server core stack via open source, introduces free Visual Studio
Nov. 13, 2014—On November 12, Microsoft announced: It is going to open source the full server-side .NET core stack The open source version of .NET will support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Visual Studio Community 2013 is available and offers free access to all Visual Studio features Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview are...
nQuery Advisor + nTerim Available
Nov. 12, 2014—The Software Store now offers free of charge subscriptions for nQuery Advisor + nTerim to the Vanderbilt community. Faculty, staff, and students are eligible to download the software through the Software Store. Customers may install the software on home computers and computers owned by Vanderbilt. Subscriptions expire each year on September 24 and require an...
MATLAB Platform Support
Nov. 11, 2014—MathWorks recently announced the following changes for MATLAB platform support: OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Support begins with R2014b Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Support begins with R2014b Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Support begins with R2014b Dropped Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008: R2015a will be the last release that supports...
Holiday Savings through Dell!
Nov. 7, 2014—Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students can save for the holidays through Dell: November 11 – November 19th: Exclusive AMD offers November 20 – November 25: Exclusive pre-sale for Members Only! These deals will not be available to the public. November 26 – November 28: Black Friday! Deals begin at midnight are limited in quantity. December...
MATLAB & Simulink with Raspberry Pi Workshop at Vanderbilt
Nov. 6, 2014—Mathworks is hosting a free MATLAB workshop on campus next week. Date: November 12, 2014 Time: 2:00-5:00 p.m. Location: 298 Jacobs Hall Register This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to Simulink’s hardware support capabilities. Using Raspberry Pi as the target platform, participants will develop, simulate, and test custom algorithms, and deploy them on a Raspberry...
MATLAB 2014b available free of charge
Nov. 6, 2014—Mathworks released MATLAB release 2014b last month. Release Notes System Requirements Current MATLAB subscribers are eligible to upgrade to release 2014b free of charge. The Software Store placed free a free download in the accounts of eligible customers.
New Outlook for Mac available to Office 365 users
Nov. 6, 2014—Microsoft released a new version of Outlook for Mac for Office 365 users on October 31, 2014. See http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/31/new-outlook-mac-available-office-365-customers/ for details.
Create and edit on Microsoft Office mobile apps for free
Nov. 6, 2014—Today, Microsoft announced that Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, and Google Android users could create and edit Microsoft Office content free of charge. See http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/06/microsoft-brings-office-to-everyone-everywhere/ for more information.
New Online Product Catalog
Nov. 6, 2014—Software Store customers have a new option for quickly finding the product they need. We posted a new online catalog with links to each product in the store. Other catalog features include: Filtering by purchasing eligibility (i.e. student, faculty/staff, or department) Sorting by platform (i.e. Windows, Mac, or Linux) Searching by product name Icons for payment...