The Microsoft Developer's Network Academic Alliance (MSDN-AA) Program is a special agreement between  UMass Amherst and Microsoft. The MSDN-AA subscription includes the most current Microsoft developer tools, platforms, and servers. 

These tools may be loaded on any number of UMass Amherst full time faculty, staff and student* instructional and research computers free of charge. MSDN-AA software is restricted for educational and research use only, and cannot be used for infrastructure or commercial development. Operating Systems from MSDNAA may only be used by Faculty and Staff for non-work related home use, and if on campus computers, only in research Labs and teaching Classrooms. UMass and Microsoft are pleased to offer this extensive software package to the University community!

*Students must be full time enrolled and taking credit courses at UMass Amherst

11-8-2012 (Updated)- Windows 8 Professional Available

We have been able to obtain additional keys through the MSDNAA (DreamSpark) Program, so we are back to limiting each user to three keys for The Windows 8 product. The Windows 8 key can activate either the x64 or the x86 version, but can only be used a single time to activate an installation.

A couple of things to note:

Links to Windows 7 Professional (x86 and x64 Versions)

Links to Office 2010 Apps

We have the following Office 2010 Applications available to download:

We do NOT have and WILL NOT have the following Office Applications:

What's New!!

• OIT Computer Classrooms can once again be used to burn ISO images to CDs! Please Click -> HERE for Instructions.
• Keys are sent out Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm and it might take up to 3 hours after the request is made before they are sent. Please be patient.
• Clarification of Acceptable Use of MSDNAA Software! Please Click -> HERE .
• Important information about the Checked/Debugged Version of Operating Systems! Please Click -> HERE before downloading.
• Downloading of files from off campus now supported with an OIT Account! You can find out more about getting an OIT Account at the following Link -> OIT Account

Policies in effect as of October 15th 2003:

Request for keys must be made using an UMass Email Account - Due to the number of illegitimate requests that we have received and staff reductions, we can no longer respond to email requests made from non- UMass email addresses.

Only 3 keys per User per product will be allowed - We are given a limited number of product keys, therefore we need to restrict the number of keys we give out. Exceptions are possible. Send requests for exceptions to msdnaa@oit.umass.edu

Server Products will be available for Download - Due to the staff reductions, we will not be able to burn media except for extreme cases of need. Hopefully the availability of server media on line and ability to download from off campus will reduce the requests for media.