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-====== Academic Alliance with Microsoft using Imagine ======
+====== Microsoft Imagine Premium ======
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-Imagine Academic Alliance is an annual membership agreement between the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Microsoft. As a member our department have access to a license(s) with rules and regulation by which to abide for Microsoft platform, servers, and developer tools software. This software may be installed on any number of departmental lab machines. The software must be used for instructional and research purposes, it may not be used to run the infrastructure of the department or commercial purposes.
-EECS Grad students  will be able to install the software to their personal computers for non-commerical purposes (teaching, research and/or design, development and testing of projects for class assignment and tests or personal projects). You may not use the software for any commercial "for-profit software" development.
+The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is enrolled in Microsoft Imagine Premium. Microsoft Imagine Premium puts professional developer tools and software in the hands of students, faculty, and staff.
-**How to obtain Imagine software product**
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-Undergraduate students currently enrolled in any EECS classes are allowed access to the web link imagine.eecs.yorku.ca. With a valid username and password, you will be allowed to the site. EECS grads, faculty and staff are also allowed access
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+===== What Software is Included? =====
+Microsoft Imagine allows students, faculty, and staff to download a wide variety of Microsoft software for free educational use.  Some examples of products that are available include:
+  * Microsoft Visual Studio
+  * Microsoft Visio
+  * Windows 10, Windows 8.1
+  * Many more!
+===== What About Microsoft Office? =====
+Microsoft Imagine does not include Microsoft Office.  However, Office 365 Education is available freely to **all** currently active full and part-time York students, faculty, and staff.  For more information on that offering, click [[http://staff.computing.yorku.ca/faculty-staff/software/free-microsoft-office-365-education-software/|here]].
+===== Who Can Use Imagine? =====
+EECS students, faculty, and staff can access Imagine.  Undergrad students **must** be enrolled in a course **in the current term** to login.
+===== How Do I Access Imagine? =====
+Click [[https://imagine.eecs.yorku.ca|here]] to login to the EECS Microsoft Imagine web portal.  You can use your EECS account, or your Passport York account.
+===== What's the Catch? =====
+Microsoft Imagine is only to be used for teaching, research, and other related classwork. It must not be used for administrative or commercial purposes.