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 The university has a campus-wide agreement for Windows //upgrades//, as well as for Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac %%OS%% X.
-As of summer 2012, the university discontinued its agreement with Apple for Mac OS upgrades, apparently because Apple were attempting to force purchase of a larger and more expensive software bundle.
+CD or DVD images may be downloaded from the [[http://www.oit.umn.edu/technology-products/|OIT Technology Products web site]].
-CD or DVD images may be downloaded from the [[http://www.oit.umn.edu/utools/index.htm|UTools web site]].
 The agreement covers all computers which are owned or leased by the University of Minnesota.
-To install most of these products you will also need a software product key, which is available alongside the downloads.  Windows Vista and later do not use product keys; they instead contact an on-campus license server periodically.
+To install some of these products you will also need a software product key, which is available alongside the downloads. Current versions of Windows and Office register themselves with a license server, so don't require a key, but they do need to be (at least periodically) on campus to communicate with the server.