SD60 has entered into a software agreement via BCERAC with Acrodex and Microsoft that allows us a volume license on many MS titles as well as covering our Computer Access Licensing requirements.
In the past Office versions would cost a school $80 for each seat. I’m pleased to announce that we can now offer this at $25 per seat for at least the next two years until April 2015 for many MS titles.
As a default option, Open Office or Libre Office are free if schools choose. Otherwise it is $25 per seat.
This is not available due to licensing terms for computers in a 1:1 program unfortunately so we will not be changing the WWP image to a newer version of Office for next year.
We will be working to upgrade our PCs over the next couple of years to Windows 7 as the default with the MS Forefront protection included. As this will be the default there will be no cost to schools for the upgrade.
If a school were to choose a different operating system, Windows 8 for example (and we don’t recommend it for now), it will cost $25 per seat.
Home Use Program
There will be some changes on how staff can purchase software for home use on this and we are working on clarification on costs as well as media type (DVD, thumbdrive, download) and we will update when we have that.