Microsoft Launch Office University 2010 for Higher Ed Students and Faculty
Microsoft are launching an Office product aimed directly at higher educational Students and their Faculty 1 February 2012.
There will be two Offerings:
Microsoft Office University 2010 including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access
Microsoft Office for Mac University 2011 including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
The new box product will contain the DVD for the media, but no activation key. Eligible customers will receive this after they purchase the product when they go online and prove their academic status (by means of their school email address or logon, or international student identity card (ISIC)-should the online verification fail, the customer can submit this manually to Microsoft) All Boxes will contain the following: “For Higher Ed students and faculty only – eligibility verification required”. If the customer is not eligible for the product, they will not be able to receive the activation key and will therefore be unable to user the product. Customers not eligible should continue to buy the current available relevant Office SKUs.
The Key provided will also unlock the Office image on a preloaded PC (the same as the other box products unlock the particular version you have purchased). As this is FPP, this will allow one user installations on 2 PCs (Under portable use rights)
It is important to note that this product is not aimed at School students (K-12 students), Office Home and Student will still be aimed at these customers. Alumni are also not eligible for Office University.
This new licence should fill the space for those higher education Students who will be the business consumers of Office and other Microsoft products tomorrow (and judging from my student experience, cash is very hard to come by for these things 
) So getting them on Microsoft now can only be a good thing!
