Why did The Ohio State University seek to establish the Microsoft Campus Agreement?
Microsoft Office is used by the majority of OSU students, faculty and staff who have personal computers (approximately 30,000 on the OSU main campus). The university wants to have the most cost-effective way to purchase the software and manage the software licenses. Microsoft products are industry standard in nearly all categories: operating systems, desktop productivity tools, and developers tools. The agreement allows The Ohio State University and Microsoft to enter an arrangement which allows the institution to better leverage its expenditures and those of its students and for Microsoft to better serve its university clients. In addition, The university wants students to have access to the most commonly used core software products, facilitating student-faculty interaction on class assignments.
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