Vista and Office 2007 Information

Recently Microsoft announced two new additions to its product line, Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Office 2007 Beta was released November 2007, the full version of Office 2007 and Vista were released at the end of January 2007. After an initial round of testing, ITS (along with other IT organizations across Harvard) has decided to postpone the rollout and support of these products to Faculty, Staff, and other Harvard owned assets.

Microsoft Windows Vista (all versions)

The Students, who's computers are personally owned and therefore subject to personal preference, may purchase and install Microsoft Vista. However, please be aware of the following compliency list of ITS provided services:

Compliant with Microsoft Vista and supported:

• Symantec Antivirus
• FAStAccess Network Registration
• MyHLS/iCommons
• NetLocker
• MyMail Web Access
• Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

Not Compliant:

• LPT:One Printing: estimated compliance by September 2008

Microsoft Office 2007 (all versions)

The faculty and staff of Harvard Law School will not be moving to Office 2007 before the start of the 2008/09 acedemic year. This means that any student that chooses to use Office 2007 MUST save all files that will be submitted in Office 2003 compatable format (*.doc, *.xls, *.ppt, *.mdb, *.pst).

ITS will provide a free copy of Office 2003 to each law student to help alliviate the compliency issues. Please click here for more information: Office 2003 Information