Trinity's free software for students

jdouglassmith

Hey everyone,

For those of you that have read your emails recently, there's an email telling us that there's free software for us to download and use for the duration of our course. This involves the likes of windows 7 professional operating system, visual basic, visio etc etc. They seem to have EVERY piece of software out there by Microsoft apart from the ones people used 99.9% of the time?!

Microsoft word? Microsoft Excel?

WHERE ARE THEY?

These programs are a fraction of the cost of the specialized software like visit, visual etc too. I can't understand this at all?

I need Excel to do my lab reports but Trinity aren't offering it!

mikesligo

I can't understand this at all?

Because they make most of their money off people buying Office products, which people will get whether it's €10 or €100, as it's seen as a necessity nowadays.

For a free alternative, http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

For a free copy, torrent.

dub45

jdouglassmith wrote: »

Hey everyone,

For those of you that have read your emails recently, there's an email telling us that there's free software for us to download and use for the duration of our course. This involves the likes of windows 7 professional operating system, visual basic, visio etc etc. They seem to have EVERY piece of software out there by Microsoft apart from the ones people used 99.9% of the time?!

I think you will find that the software in question is made available under the scheme described here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ie/academic/bb250591

jdouglassmith wrote: »

Microsoft word? Microsoft Excel?

WHERE ARE THEY?

These programs are a fraction of the cost of the specialized software like visit, visual etc too. I can't understand this at all?

I need Excel to do my lab reports but Trinity aren't offering it!

There are several links on the page below to suppliers offering Ms Office at student rates.

http://isservices.tcd.ie/software/student_software.php

tehjimmeh

jdouglassmith wrote: »

I need Excel to do my lab reports but Trinity aren't offering it!

Excel, and all MS Office products are installed on pretty much every Student accessible computer in college, no?

partyatmygaff

Nice one, I've been meaning to get Visual basic for a while now.

Scratch that... Seems to be limited only to Electronic Engineering/CS students

Seapoint

@jdouglassmith

Talking about reading your emails ?

use Google Docs in your Trinity email:

docs.google.com/a/tcd.ie , create a new spreadsheet....

jdouglassmith wrote: »

Hey everyone,

For those of you that have read your emails recently, there's an email telling us that there's free software for us to download and use for the duration of our course. This involves the likes of windows 7 professional operating system, visual basic, visio etc etc. They seem to have EVERY piece of software out there by Microsoft apart from the ones people used 99.9% of the time?!

Microsoft word? Microsoft Excel?

WHERE ARE THEY?

These programs are a fraction of the cost of the specialized software like visit, visual etc too. I can't understand this at all?

I need Excel to do my lab reports but Trinity aren't offering it!

Seapoint

@jdouglassmith actually... Office is included on the MSDN site

andrew

There's zero need to use a single Microsoft product while you're in college, so what the matter? [though I can't speak for visual studio]

baby and crumble

Well what bugs me is that every student can get quantitative analysis software (SPSS) for free every year but nothing for qualitative analysis.

I know none of you care, but it's very annoying, considering a 1 year nVivo licence costs €145.

Groinshot

baby and crumble wrote: »

Well what bugs me is that every student can get quantitative analysis software (SPSS) for free every year but nothing for qualitative analysis.

I know none of you care, but it's very annoying, considering a 1 year nVivo licence costs €145.

What bugs ME is that we don't get Xcode for free,(the latest version I mean)

andrew

Too bad file sharing is illegal, eh

arboroia

Seapoint wrote: »

@jdouglassmith actually... Office is included on the MSDN site

I tried that download - it is only Office 2007 Service Pack 1, but you must have already have Office 2007 w/o service pack installed to use it.