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From Mike Tholfsen

Lately a lot of you have said you really like OneNote but don’t see any reason to use it beyond its tablet ink capabilities… so I sat down with Mike Tholfsen (who from now on we’ll refer to as the OneNote Ninja) who talked about his dream of “OneNote Next-Gen Learning” and got some cool demos of the stellar features that you don’t even need a tablet for but are must-haves for students today.

So if you take a lot of notes or ever do research, you’ll drool over the search features he shows. Ever had to work with other people before on a team or class project? Then collaboration is your ticket. Fall asleep in class too much and think you’re missing out on important things? Then recording a lecture may save your butt… and Mike shows you how.

Note to those of you who have never seen or heard of OneNote: you may want to read up a bit about it or check out the training before you watch this because we skip over the newbie stuff and dive right into the fun… Ninjas don’t mess around!

OneNote 2007 Toolkit for Teachers video

Most of these videos cover OneNote 2007 features, but one of them is targeted specifically for the OneNote 2007 Toolkit for Teachers notebook. This video is about 8 minutes long and walks through each section of the notebook briefly and explains its purpose. I encourage people to take a look and watch: VIDEO: OneNote2007 Toolkit for Teachers

I’ll be adding more even more education-specific videos in the future, as well as more basic OneNote feature videos. I encourage you to check out any or all of the videos and hopefully they will help you out with some aspects of OneNote that you’re curious about.

Here is the link to easily see the list of all 14 videos:

OneNote 2007 Teacher Toolkit
OneNote & Outlook integration - tasks, meetings, contacts and email
OneNote Search
Using Page Templates in OneNote
OneNote and Tags
Print to OneNote
Save OneNote as web page, PDF or Word document
OneNote audio recording and linked notes
OneNote Drawing Tools
Side Notes in OneNote
Creating a table of contents in OneNote
Tools Options settings in OneNote
Password protect files in OneNote
Backup with OneNote

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From Susan Stainsby, Start the year off right with tips from a teacher and some great resources to help you get started.

what are the five most important things a parent can do to prepare their child for a successful school year:

Tip 1: Read
“It’s one of the best ways to keep a child’s mind sharp when he or she is not in school,” says Catlyn.

One activity that I enjoy doing with my kids is spending an afternoon at our local library or bookstore. Both of my kids were really excited to get their own library cards, too.

If you are looking for some great book ideas to fill out your kid’s reading list, here are some great resources:

2008 Notable Children’s Books, American Library Association (ALA)
Best Books for Young Adults 2008, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Booklists for every age and interest, National Education Association (NEA)
Also, be sure to check out Nancy Pearl’s list of favorite authors, inspire your kids with Book Crush, or join the Book Lust online communities.

Tip 2: Make sure your child gets enough sleep
Sleep experts from the National Sleep Foundation say that kids need their rest to perform well at school. Follow their practical tips for setting your kids’ back-to-school sleep clocks at least two weeks before the school year begins.

“So many students come back to school — and sometimes remain this way throughout the school year! — on the same sleep schedule they had during the summer,” Catlyn says.

Tip 3: Emphasize the positive
“Kids pick up on your attitude,” Catlyn explains. “If you complain about shopping for back-to-school clothes and supplies, they’ll pick up on it. If you speak negatively about your child’s teacher, they will start the year thinking negatively about him or her.”

For me, part of the fun of parenting is trying to figure out what excites my kids. I want them to understand that learning isn’t a “job” that ends on a graduation day; it’s something that we all do every day for life and it is enjoyable!

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5 great add-ons for Internet Explorer

Add-ons are programs that add features to a web browser or change the way it works. If you’ve ever wished Internet Explorer could do something new or differently, chances are there’s an add-on out there that will fulfill your wish.

Power users love IE7Pro

IE7Pro is a free add-on for Internet Explorer 7 that is indispensable to many in their day-to-day work. It adds a raft of new abilities to the web browser, including advanced management of tabbed browsing settings, a simple download manager, spelling checks of text you enter in web forms, autoscrolling of webpages, quick searching of page text, ad and Flash blocking, custom keyboard shortcuts, and much more.

One of the favorite features of this add-on is its ability to automatically refresh a tab at a specified interval. In my job as an IT coordinator. This feature is also quite useful for seeing the latest messages coming into your web-based e-mail inbox and for keeping track of online auctions and message boards.

Do you want to search the Internet for something you’re reading about on a particular webpage? Instead of copying and pasting the text into a search box, simply select the word or phrase, right-click it, then click Search With to search for the term using Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, or another search engine of your choice. The results appear in a new tab.

Have you ever closed a tab by mistake? No worries—click Tab History in the IE7Pro menu, and then click Reopen Last Closed Tab. Did Internet Explorer crash? IE7Pro will offer to restore the tabs that were open when the crash occurred.

Road warriors who frequently switch Internet connections will love IE7Pro’s proxy switcher. Instead of manually changing the proxy configuration each time you switch connections, you can quickly select previously used proxy servers from a menu.

Simple but effective: Find As You Type
To search for text on a webpage in Internet Explorer, normally you must press CTRL+F, type the search term into the Find window and then click Next. Find As You Type is an add-on that allows you to see all matches to your search term as it is typed. Matches are instantly highlighted on the page. If you type a combination of letters that does not appear on the page, an audio cue sounds and the Find box turns red.

Organize your downloads with LeechGet
An Internet connection can be unreliable, and far too often many have felt the frustration that comes from having a large download interrupted. Restarting the download in Internet Explorer is hit-or-miss; sometimes one does lose the partial download, and sometimes one doesn’t. One favorite is a product called LeechGet. It operates as a standalone program that integrates with Internet Explorer by managing downloads you click in the browser.

LeechGet allows you to manage multiple downloads, pause and resume, schedule downloads to occur at a particular time, and split your downloads into smaller “tasks.” You can also impose a “speed limit” on downloads that restricts how much bandwidth they can use, thus leaving you some bandwidth to browse the web. The program includes a download history and speed monitor.

LeechGet has two versions: a free version that limits you to one download at a time and does not include updates, and a paid version that removes those restrictions and includes technical support. To download it, go to the LeechGet website.

Make RSS shine with RikReader
Since the release of Internet Explorer 7 and its integrated RSS feed reader. You can subscribe to hundreds of different feeds (For more information about RSS feeds, see The wonderful world of RSS feeds).

The feed reader has a couple of glaring deficiencies. First, there is no way to mark all feeds as read. Second, there is no way to view all of my feeds at the same time. RikReader is one feed reader of choice. (Technically, RikReader is a program, rather than an add-on, but it integrates with the feed-subscription capabilities of Internet Explorer.)

RikReader displays the feeds you have subscribed to in Internet Explorer. It offers both a conventional two-pane view, with headlines on one side and article text on the other, and an impressive “newspaper” view that displays the full text of each article or blog post in a multicolumn layout. In either view, the text size can be easily reduced or enlarged via a slider. By typing a term in the search box, you can instantly filter a feed so that only articles containing that term are displayed.

Me.dium: An interaction revolution
Humans are inherently social creatures, and we love to interact with others online—hence the popularity of instant messaging, social networking sites, and online forums. In the end, though, web surfing has basically remained a solitary experience. We’ve always known that lots of other people are likely to be looking at the same page as we are, at the same time, but we couldn’t see or interact with them—until now.

Me.dium is an add-on that allows you to peek behind the curtain of the web. After you install it, a Me.dium “map” appears in the left pane of the browser. The map displays an icon representing you and the website you are viewing, along with icons of other Me.dium users who are visiting the same site. Users you’ve added to your Me.dium friends list show up as yellow, and others show up as blue. Surrounding your icon are icons representing related sites that you or other Me.dium users have visited. For example, if you’re at a news site, Me.dium will show you other news sites; if you are at a bank’s website it will suggest other banking and financial sites. You can click an icon to go directly to that site.

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Evaluate Microsoft Server Products and you could win a Server for your home

“Evalu’08” REGISTRATION PROMOTION
OFFICIAL RULES
UPDATED June 30, 2008

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. PROMOTION PERIOD:

The Promotion begins at 12:00:01 a.m. Pacific Time (PT) on February 27, 2008, and ends at 11:59:59 pm (PT) on September 30, 2008 (“Promotion Period”) and consists of the following three (3) separate Sweepstakes with unique methods of entry (see “How to Enter” section below):

Zune Sweepstakes,

Xbox 360 Elite Sweepstakes; and

Windows Home Server Sweepstakes .

Each Sweepstakes will consist of thirty-two (32) separate Weekly Prize Periods.

For each Sweepstakes, Prize winners will be selected from among all eligible entries received during each Weekly Prize Period. Each Weekly Prize Period begins at 12:00:01 a.m. PT on Wednesday and ends at 11:59:59 pm PT on Tuesday throughout the Promotion Period. Non-winning entries will carry over to subsequent Weekly Entry Periods.

HOW TO ENTER: For each Sweepstakes, there are two ways to enter: on-line or via U.S. Mail.

Zune Sweepstakes
To receive one (1) entry into the Zune Sweepstakes, you must navigate to the Promotion web site and evaluate one (1) product as described below. Limit one (1) entry per person in the Zune Sweepstakes.

Xbox 360 Elite Sweepstakes
To receive one (1) entry into the Xbox 360 Elite Sweepstakes, you must navigate to the Promotion web site and evaluate two (2) products as described below. Limit one (1) entry per person in the Xbox 360 Elite Sweepstakes.

Windows Home Server Sweepstakes
To receive one (1) entry into the Windows Home Server Sweepstakes, you must navigate to the Promotion web site and evaluate three (3) products as described below. Limit one (1) entry per person in the Windows Home Server Sweepstakes.

To evaluate a product you must visit http://www.microsoft.com/infrastructure/evalu08 and either download one of the posted Evalu’08 trial products posted, or download one of the posted Evalu’08 “V-Labs”. All Evalu’08 Products and V-Labs are available for free on a trial basis online at: http://www.microsoft.com/infrastructure/evalu08. To access the online registration form, you’ll be prompted to sign in with your Windows LIVE™ ID. You can register for a free Windows Live ID online at: https://login.live.com/. Once you have completed all required fields, checked the “Yes, I want to register and receive the benefits” box, and submit your registration, you will automatically receive credit for one (1) product evaluation. Limit of three (3) product evaluations per person.

To enter each sweepstakes via U.S. mail without evaluating a product as described above, you must hand print your first and last name, street address and daytime phone number on a 3″ x 5″ piece of paper and mail your entry in a #10 envelope with sufficient postage to: Evalu’08 Registration Promotion, P.O. Box 1213, Lombard, IL 8213.. Mailed entries must indicate on the outer envelope which sweepstakes the entry is for and must be postmarked by September, 30 2008 and received by October 7, 2008. Limit one mail in entry per person per sweepstakes. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, mutilated, incomplete, postage due or misdirected mail/entries.

If there is a dispute about who the email address or entry belongs to, the entry will be deemed to be submitted by the name indicated on the entry form. No automatic, programmed, robotic or similar means of entry are permitted and individuals engaging in such practices will be disqualified. The use of automated or third party software or web sites to enter is prohibited. Any other attempted form of entry is prohibited. By entering, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and by the decisions of the judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects.

ELIGIBILITY:
THE PROMOTION IS NOT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. U.S. GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION PARTNERS OR CUSTOMERS: U.S. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ARE INELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROMOTION.

Each Sweepstakes is a trade promotion and is only open to legal residents of the 50 United States (includes D.C.) who are at least 18 years of age and are employed as IT professionals or software developers (or in a IT or software development role) or have experience and/or knowledge necessary to use one of the following 15 Microsoft Products: SQL 2008,Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, Expression, BizTalk Server 2006, ILM (Identity Lifecycle Manager, Active Directory Rights Management Services, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Forefront Client Security, Internet Security and Acceleration Server, System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007,System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007.

Employees of Microsoft Corporation and any person engaged to work on this promotional program and each of their respective affiliates, parent companies, subsidiaries, promotion, advertising, promotional agencies and members of their immediate families (biological, step or in-law) including parent, grandparent, child, sibling or spouse of any of the foregoing (regardless of where they live), or households of any of the above, whether related or not, are NOT eligible to participate.

Please Note: It is the entrant’s sole responsibility to review and understand their employer’s policies regarding eligibility to participate in trade promotions such as this one. Please verify that your receipt of this prize would not violate your company’s internal policies regarding receiving prizes of this type. If you are participating in violation of your employer’s policies, Microsoft may disqualify you from entering this Promotion or receiving prizes. Microsoft is not liable or responsible for any disputes arising between you and your employer related to your participation in this Promotion, and Microsoft will only award prizes in compliance with your employer’s policies.

WINNER SELECTION/PRIZES: For each Sweepstakes, one (1) winner will be chosen in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received during each Weekly Prize Period. Each Weekly Prize Period begins at 12:00:01 a.m. on Wednesday and ends at 11:59:59 pm on Tuesday throughout the Promotion Period. Non-winning entries will roll over into subsequent Weekly Prize Periods. All drawings will be conducted by Wunderman, an independent judging organization, whose decisions will be final and binding in all respects. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received for each sweepstakes’ weekly prize period.

Zune Sweepstakes
Thirty-two (32) Prizes. A 4GB Zune digital media player (Approximate Retail Value (ARV), $150 each). Total ARV of all prizes to be awarded in this sweepstakes: $4,799.68

Xbox 360 Elite Sweepstakes
Thirty-two (32) Prizes. An Xbox 360 Elite console (ARV, $449 each). Total ARV of all prizes to be awarded in this sweepstakes: $14,399.68.

Windows Home Server Sweepstakes
Thirty-two (32) Prizes. A Windows Home Server (ARV, $600 each). Total ARV of all prizes to be awarded in this sweepstakes: $17,919.68.

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Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program that helps teams work together dynamically and effectively, even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline.

Working in Groove workspaces saves time, increases productivity, and strengthens the quality of team deliverables. Office Groove 2007 is just one example of how the 2007 Microsoft Office system helps teams and organizations collaborate more effectively.

Work together dynamically
Keep your team, tools, files, and information in one place.

Create a Groove workspace right on your computer with two clicks.
Invite your colleagues, partners, and customers without worrying about networks or servers.
Add tools to support your team’s evolving needs: file-sharing, discussions, meetings, business forms, and more.

Stay productive anywhere, online or offline
Update team information in the office, at a customer site, on the road, and from home.

All Groove workspaces, tools, and information are stored right on your computer.
Work productively anywhere you’ve got your laptop, whether you’re connected to a network or not.
Automatic synchronization keeps you and your team members up to date.

Streamline content creation
Share, revise, and publish files all from a single workspace.

Exchange document changes with your team members easily and efficiently.
Use integrated alerts and contextual communication tools to shorten review cycles.
Publish completed documents to SharePoint document libraries with one click for workflow, storage, and retrieval.

Out-of-the-box integration with other Microsoft Programs
Tap into Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, and Microsoft Office Communicator to enhance team collaboration.

Synchronize an Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library with Office Groove 2007. Collaborate on files in Office Groove 2007 and publish to Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 when you’re done.
Import your InfoPath forms into Office Groove 2007. Collect and track structured data in your team workspace, and export or synchronize results with enterprise systems.
Make a phone call or start an instant messaging session from a Groove workspace using the 2005 or 2007 versions of Office Communicator.

How do you Groove?

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Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool you can use to create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share information to make more informed decisions. With the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, rich data visualization, and PivotTable views, professional-looking charts are easier to create and use. Office Excel 2007, combined with Excel Services, a new technology that will ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, provides significant improvements for sharing data with greater security. You can share sensitive business information more broadly with enhanced security with your coworkers, customers, and business partners. By sharing a spreadsheet using Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services, you can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views directly on the Web browser.

Create better spreadsheets

Office Excel 2007 takes advantage of the Office Fluent user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible. It also offers more room for you to work in and delivers faster performance.

Take advantage of the Office Fluent user interface.

Find the tools you want when you need them using the results-oriented Office Fluent user interface in Office Excel 2007. Based on the job you need to accomplish, whether it is creating a table or writing a formula, Office Excel 2007 presents the appropriate commands to you within the Office Fluent user interface.

Enjoy increased spreadsheet row and column capacity of 1 million rows by 16,000 columns that enables you to import and work with massive amounts of data and achieve faster calculation performance with support for dual or multicore processors.

Quickly format cells and tables.

Use Cell Styles and Table Styles galleries to quickly format your spreadsheet the way you want. Tables include AutoFilters while column headers stay in view when you scroll through the data. AutoFilters populate and expand any table automatically.
Formulas authoring experience includes a resizable

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Start working immediately with the results-oriented features in Office Access 2007:

Prebuilt solutions.

The new Getting Started screen includes a variety of prebuilt database solutions. Use these applications right out of the box to track contacts, events, issues, assets, tasks, and more — or treat them like templates, and enhance and refine them to accommodate the kind of information you want to track or the way in which you want to track it. As other application templates become available from Microsoft Office Online, they will be advertised in the Getting Started screen.
Office Fluent user interface. Office Access 2007 has been updated with a fresh look that makes it easier to create, modify, and work with tracking applications (Access database solutions).

The Office Fluent user interface (UI)

is context-sensitive and optimized for efficiency and discoverability. From the nearly 1,000 available commands, the Fluent UI displays only those relevant to the task you are performing at any given moment. In addition, the tabbed windows view and a new status bar, scroll bars, and title bar give applications built on Office Access 2007 a very modern look.

Improved navigation.

The new Navigation Pane provides a comprehensive view of tables, forms, queries, and reports. You can even create custom groups to organize and see all the forms and reports related to a single table.

Quickly create tables.

Office Access 2007 makes it easier to work directly within a datasheet to create and customize tables. Enter information into a data cell — just as you do in Microsoft Office Excel. When you enter a new value, Office Access 2007 automatically adds a new field and detects the data type (for example, date, number, or text). You can even paste Excel tables into a new datasheet, and Office Access 2007 will build all the fields and recognize the data types automatically.

How do you use Office Access 2007?

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How about Microsoft Accounting 2008? Use it for personal use or your small home business. What it’s about:

Office Accounting Express Overview
Microsoft® Office Accounting Express is an easy to use accounting package that works with other Office applications you already know.

Save time on everyday tasks
Get started in minutes with a step by step interview wizard
Create invoices, track time and expenses and bank online
Enter data once and share it seamlessly with other Microsoft Office system programs
Manage payroll and accept credit cards with affordable add-on services that save you time and money
Get a complete view of your business
See customer, vendor, employee and financial data in one place
Get business insights with customizable reports
Easily share your books with your accountant through Office Live
Grow your business onlineList items on eBay, manage sales and download transactions
Email invoices and get paid faster with PayPal
Process credit card payments directly in Office Accounting

Want to start a small home business? Start here on Microsoft Office Live for Small Business:

Everything you need to grow your business online

Get Online

Take your business online with a FREE Web site and e-mail, plus low-cost e-commerce
Attract Customers
Promote your business and generate sales with easy-to-use, affordable e-mail marketing and search marketing products
Manage Your Business
Manage sales opportunities, projects, documents, and more with FREE online business applications

Here’s a quite directly from the site:

“…Office Live Small Business gives the nation’s 25 million small businesses a chance to use the same online tools as the big boys. Nobody else offers a complete one-stop self-contained unified Internet toolkit for small businesses — especially not at these prices.” David Pogue, New York Times,
February 2008

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Microsoft took into account extensive usability data and recent advancements in hardware and software, the team has delivered the most significant update to the Microsoft Office user interface in more than a decade. The result of these efforts is the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface — a user interface that makes it easier for people to get more out of Microsoft Office applications so they can deliver better results faster.

In previous releases of Microsoft Office applications, people used a system of menus, toolbars, task panes, and dialog boxes to get their work done. This system worked well when the applications had a limited number of commands. Now that the programs do so much more, the menus and toolbars system does not work as well. Too many program features are too hard for many users to find. For this reason, the overriding design goal for the Office Fluent user interface is to make it easier for people to find and use the full range of features these applications provide. In addition, we wanted to preserve an uncluttered workspace that reduces distraction for users so they can spend more time and energy focused on their work. With these goals in mind, we developed a results-oriented approach that makes it much easier to produce great results using the 2007 Microsoft Office applications.

While the overall look of the redesigned applications is new, early testing indicates that people quickly feel at home in the Office Fluent user interface and rapidly become accustomed to the new way these applications work. The ease with which people use the Office Fluent interface is due to the simplicity of the interface features:

The Ribbon
In the Office Fluent UI the traditional menus and toolbars have been replaced by the Ribbon — a device that presents commands organized into a set of tabs. The tabs on the Ribbon display the commands that are most relevant for each of the task areas in the applications. For example, in Office Word 2007, the tabs group commands for activities such as inserting objects like pictures and tables, doing page layout, working with references, doing mailings, and reviewing. The Home tab provides easy access to the most frequently used commands. Office Excel 2007 has a similar set of tabs that make sense for spreadsheet work including tabs for working with formulas, managing data, and reviewing. These tabs simplify accessing application features because they organize the commands in a way that corresponds directly to the tasks people perform in these applications.

The Microsoft Office button
Many of the most valuable features in previous versions of Microsoft Office were not about the document authoring experience at all. Instead, they were about all the things you can do with a document: share it, protect it, print it, publish it, and send it. In spite of that, previous releases of the Microsoft Office applications lacked a single central location where a user can see all of these capabilities in one place. File-level features were mixed in with authoring features.

The Office Fluent user interface brings together the capabilities of the Microsoft Office system into a single entry point in the UI: the Microsoft Office Button. This offers two major advantages. First, it helps users find these valuable features. Second, it simplifies the core authoring scenarios by allowing the Ribbon to focus on creating great documents.

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They fine folks over at GottaBeMoble posted Microsoft’s offer for Students getting Office Ultimate 2007! I took advantage of this last year when I was taking a graduate level statistics course. Microsoft is offering Office Ultimate to students for the unreal price of $59.95. All you need is to have a .edu email address and be registered for at least 0.5 credit hours in case MS decides to come asking for proof of your enrollment for whatever reason. Office Ultimate retails for $679, so this is a very significant savings. The beauty of Office Ultimate is that it offers the complete Office suite of software allowing for integrating files between different programs. For example, a OneNote page can be turned into an Outlook appointment. Similarly, an Outlook email can be sent into OneNote for editing.

Microsoft® – The Ultimate Steal Promotion

This promotion is subject to the following terms and conditions and all participants acknowledge and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

Program Description:
All eligible university students are entitled to make a purchase from the promotion site as described further below.

Promotion Duration:
This offer commences at 12:00PM Pacific Daylight Savings Time on July 1, 2008 and all purchases must be made via the Promotion web site by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time on December 31, 2010 at which time the offer ends.

Microsoft reserves the right to extend or terminate this promotion at anytime.

Promotion Eligibility:
This offer is good only to eligible students who attend an educational institution geographically located in the United States. This offer is non-transferable. One of each product may be purchased per eligible student (but not required).

The following conditions serve to define student eligibility for the promotion:

1. .edu: Individual must possess a valid e-mail address at a U.S. educational institution which contains the domain suffix .edu; OR

Pre-Approved School List: Enrolled in a U.S. educational institution included on the pre-approved school list; OR

Submission of school enrollment: Submit verifiable school enrollment via the validation process; AND

2. Individual must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request. Microsoft or an appointed vendor may contact you to verify that you are a current student. If documentation is not provided indicating that you are a current student, you will be liable to reimburse Microsoft for the difference between what you paid and the estimated retail price of the software.

Microsoft, in their sole discretion, may accept other forms of validation to determine eligibility in lieu of a valid e-mail address when one is not available.

Program Description:
Eligible students are allowed to purchase up to one license from each of the four sections below:
1. Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 (USD$59.95): Perpetual license, which includes the following applications:
Access® 2007
Accounting Express 2008 *(see Obtaining Software below)
Excel® 2007
InfoPath® 2007
Groove® 2007
OneNote® 2007
Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager *(see Obtaining Software below)
PowerPoint® 2007
Publisher 2007
Word 2007
2. Available September 8 - Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 (USD$55.95): Perpetual license, which includes the following application:
Visio® Professional 2007
3. Available September 8 - Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 (USD$9.95): Perpetual license for a single language pack, which includes the following application:
Office Language Pack 2007 (click here for available languages)
4. Available September 8 - Windows Vista® Ultimate Upgrade (USD$64.95): Perpetual license, which includes the following application:
Windows Vista® Ultimate Upgrade*

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