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March 19, 2008
Office 2008 for Mac OS X Student Media is now available at the NSIT Solution Center. Faculty/Staff media is at the replicator and is expected in late next week. Assuming the replication job remains on-schedule, we expect to make the Faculty/Staff media available beginning on the first day of the Spring Quarter (March 31, 2008) at the NSIT Solution Center.

January 9, 2008
Microsoft announced that Office 2008 for Mac OS X is being released on January 15, 2008. This does not mean we have Office 2008 for Mac OS X available yet via the Campus Agreement. What this does mean, is that we will be receiving the master media for Office 2008 for Mac OS X later this month or early next and then will need to arrange for it to be replicated. The end result is that we currently do not expect to make Office 2008 for Mac OS X available until late-Winter or early-Spring Quarter 2008. This also applies to Student Media availability. We will post updated information as firmer dates as established.

June 22, 2007
Departmental media for Windows Vista Enterprise Upgrade (32-bit) will be available at CCS beginning on June 25, 2007 - please see the Vista Activation link at left for important information about activating this product. Media for Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade (32-bit) will also be available at CCS beginning on June 25, 2007 - Windows Ultimate Upgrade media is the only Windows Vista media available to Students, but may also be purchased/used for Departmental use by Faculty and Staff. Finally, Student media for Office 2007 Enterprise will be available at CCS beginning on June 25, 2007 as well.

May 21, 2007
Testing for the volume licensing infrastructure necessary for the release of the Departmental Windows Vista Enterprise media is nearing completion, once these tests are complete we will be release this media - the current estimate for this is early-June. Student media for Office 2007 Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate has been ordered and should be available in June.

April 16, 2007
Departmental media for Office 2007 is now available at CCS. The volume licensing infrastructure necessary for the release of the Departmental Windows Vista Enterprise media is in the final stages of testing, once these tests are complete we will be release this media - the current estimate for this is late-April/early-May. Student media for Office 2007 Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate will not be shipping until May.

February 22, 2007
We have been informed by our distributor that the student media for Office 2007 Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate will not be shipping until April/May. Departmental media for Office 2007 is currently being replicated and should be available in mid-March. The volume licensing infrastructure necessary for the release of the Departmental Windows Vista Enterprise media is still being tested, once these tests are complete we will be release this media - the current estimate for this is late-March.

Last updated: 9/19/08