Office 2007 and Vista Upgrade Schedule

Following University Information Technology Service’s lead, IU Southeast will debut Microsoft Office 2007 campus wide during the summer 2007 semester.

Office 2007 Enterprise Edition is now available for download from IUware Online for IU students, faculty, and staff:

Office 2007 Enterprise CDs became available in April 2007.

Caveat:The default file format for Office 2007 is incompatible with older versions of Office, including Office2003.

Windows Vista, the newest version of Windows, is not an upgrade to Windows XP but an entirely new operating system.

Microsoft lists Windows Vista hardware requirements in two categories, Vista Capable and Vista Premium Ready:

• 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1GB of system memory

• A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable with Hardware Pixel Shader v2.0 and WDDM Driver support128MB of graphics memory

• 40GB of hard drive capacity

• DVD-ROM drive

• Audio output capability

• Internet access capability

By the fall 2008 semester, nearly all student, faculty and staff computers will be Vista Capable and most will be Vista Ready.

CURRENT VISTA SOFTWARE COMPATABILITY ISSUES…

Not Compatible with :

• SPSS

• SAS

• RealPlayer

• QuarkXPress

• Palm Desktop

• iTunes

• ArcGIS 9.x

Compatibility issues with:

• Adobe Creative Suite CS2

• Adobe Acrobat 7.08 and

• Many others

Windows Vista Enterprise Edition is currently available from IUware Online (only for registered LSPs).

Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate DVDs became available in April 2007.

FYI: The retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate will be available for purchase at a discounted rate. However, Windows Vista Ultimate is not covered by IU's volume license, and will not be available for download from IUware.

If you have any questions, please call the help desk at: 812.941.2447

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Personalized Printing Allotments

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Downloading and File Sharing: are you legal?

For the past several months music companies have been suing college students for thousands of dollars based on claims that the students have used “peer to peer” software like BitTorrent and Limewire to download and share copyrighted songs over the Internet without the permission of the copyright holders. One such lawsuit was filed against 19 Indiana University students in May 2007. The music companies are demanding between $3,000 and $4,000 to settle their claims and several IU students have already paid $4,000 in out-of-court settlements. If the lawsuits were to go to trial and the music companies were able to prove their claims of copyright infringement, students could face substantially higher penalties under the law, not to mention significant legal fees. 

Understand the Law
Some students may not realize that it is generally illegal to share copyrighted music, videos, games, and software files over the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder.  In some cases there can even be criminal penalties.  As a student it is critical that you understand the following:

• if one shares copyrighted music, movies and software files over the Internet using peer-to-peer file sharing programs, he or she is most likely breaking the law;
• it is relatively simple for the copyright holders to identify computers on the Internet from which sharing is taking place, and then obtain a subpoena to require that the Internet Service Provider (IU in this case) identify the user of that computer;
• they may then file a lawsuit against the individual seeking thousands of dollars in damages;
• illegal sharing using Internet access provided by IU also violates IU policy; and
• if IU receives a valid notice that a student has used the IU network to engage in unlawful file sharing, the University will pursue appropriate disciplinary measures and apply an administrative charge to his or her bursar bill to cover the costs of the investigation.   

Learn more
The University has been educating students for several years about the problems of sharing copyrighted materials over the Internet without permission of the copyright holders, and the serious risks that it poses to students and their families.  Our experience has been that students do not always understand the seriousness of this issue.  Therefore we are writing to inform you of the risks of unlawful file sharing and to encourage you to avoid the legal and policy issues surrounding file sharing.  You can get more information at our website, http://filesharing.iu.edu.

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