Yesterday, Microsoft removed that barrier by founding a self-serve process for students and parents. ![]() Computerworld's only recommendation: Contact IT.īut most parents had no idea how to do that, having had little or no contact with their school district's IT department. When Computerworld reported on the launch of Student Advantage last year, it was inundated with emails from parents who wanted to know how they could get Office 365 for their children. In turn, administrators had to check eligibility, create an account and process the Office 365 subscription order before a student could sign in and start downloading the suite. The biggest problem with Student Advantage was its implementation: Students, or in the case of many middle schoolers and high schoolers, their parents, had to contact the district's or college's IT department. To participate in Student Advantage, school districts and universities must have licensed Office for staff and faculty institution-wide. Office Professional Plus 2013 is traditionally-licensed software - sometimes called a "perpetual license" because it can be used as long as one wants to stick with it - while Office 365 ProPlus is a subscription service, part of Microsoft's broad effort to shift customers to a rent-not-buy model.
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