Under the LSU Microsoft Campus Agreement, Operating systems are upgrades only to a previously purchased operating system, which means that a computer should be bought along with a Microsoft operating system in order to use operating systems available under this campus agreement. However, applications like Office Suite or OneNote need not be purchased with the computer and can be installed at any time after the purchase. Products covered under the campus agreement may be installed on LSU owned machines, but may also be installed on one machine at home. After leaving LSU, faculty, staff and students must uninstall their copy of the software, and will be ineligible to receive future upgrades.However, students who graduate are eligible to keep their copy for non subscriptions based products such as Office 365, please contact ITS for more information.
Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Development [ ] The first beta of Microsoft Office 2007, referred to as Beta-1 in emails sent to a small number of testers, was released on November 16, 2005. The Beta-1 Technical Refresh was released to testers on March 13, 2006. The Technical Refresh fixed issues in installing with Windows Vista build 5308. Microsoft revealed the on March 9, 2006 at in Germany.
Office 2007 Beta 2 was announced by at 2006, and was initially released to the public at no cost from Microsoft's web site. However, because of an unprecedented number of downloads, a fee of $1.50 was introduced for each product downloaded after August 2, 2006. The beta was updated on September 14, 2006 in Beta 2 Technical Refresh (Beta2TR). It included an updated user interface, better accessibility support, improvements in the robustness of the platform, and greater functionality.
The beta versions continued to function in a reduced functionality mode after February 1, 2007. If users downloaded the Technical Refresh to update Beta 2, then users could use its full functionality until March 31, 2007 for client products and May 15, 2007 for server products. The Beta program ended on November 8, 2006, when Microsoft declared the product ' (RTM) and started manufacturing the final product. After RTM, the availability of the beta download ended.