All the software described on this page runs on Microsft Windows.

NOTE TO FIREFOX USERS: Firefox will not follow the links below to network shares. You will have to type the share links into the Run box on your Start menu.

Difficulties in connecting: If you get a popup saying "Network path not found" or something similar, try running "\\sydney"; if that works, the problem may be that Windows XP Service Pack 2 changed your network settings. Open Control Panel/Network Connections, right click on Local Area Connection, click on Properties, scroll down and highlight "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)", click on Properties, click on "Advanced" at the bottom right of the General panel, click on the WINS tab at the top, and click on the "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" button. Hit OK buttons to get out of everything and try again. If all this doesn't work, come ask me for CDs.)

Microsoft Office - General word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software. Available in all computer labs.

Visual Studio.NET 2005 - The official release of Microsoft's new development environment for various computer languages. Available in computer labs, and available as a free download at \\mathserver\msdnaa\readme.htm to all students enrolled in a department course. (Downloads only work on the campus network. If this link doesn't work for you, then you do not have permission to download. If you are using a computer that is not a member of the SUSQU domain, your laptop for example, then you need to log on to the network by typing "\\mathserver\MSDNAA\readme.htm" in your Start/Run popup. If you get a logon popup, log in to the SUSQU domain, that is, enter your username as susqu\username and use your network password.

Visual Studio 2008 - The latest version of Visual Studio, released November 19, 2007. This is an ISO image in \\mathserver\MSDNAA\VisualStudio2008. The image is 4GB itself, so be sure you have lots of free space to install.

MSDN Subscription - The Department has a subscription to Microsoft Developers' Network Academic Alliance that permits students in the department's courses to download much of Microsoft's main software products: operating systems, Visual Studio, Back Office servers, etc., etc., including beta versions of upcoming products. (Not Office, though.) Download from \\mathserver\msdnaa\readme.htm.

MSDN Library - The complete Microsoft Developers' Network Library, documentation about everything in the MSDN Subscription. It is available to anyone on our network. It does require the installation of a small 80 MB version on your local machine, but the gigabytes of documentation remain on the network. Run \\mathserver\MSDNAA\MSDN Library 2005\setup.exe, and choose the Typical Installation.

Minitab, version 14 - Statistics program used in Department statistics courses. Available in labs. Available on the network at \\app1\minitab\mtb14.exe.

SPSS, A big-time statistics package. Available in labs.

SAS, Another big-time statistics package. Available in labs.

Derive for Windows, version 6 - The standard symbolic mathematics program used by Department courses. Available in labs. Students on campus may run Derive on their own Windows computers over the network by running \\app1\Derive 6\Derive6.exe. NOTE: You must have several special Derive font files installed on your computer for Derive to work properly. Open \\app1\Derive 6, copy the four files DerUNI_B.TTF, DerUNI_I.TTF, DerUNI_J.TTF, and DerUNI_R.TTF, and paste them into your Windows font directory, which is probably C:\Windows\Fonts.

MatLab - A comprehensive mathematics program emphasizing matrix operations (as in linear algebra, not the movies). Available to all on campus for student and classroom use at \\mathserver\matlab2007a\bin\matlab.bat.

Mathematica - A comprehensive symbolic mathematics program. It is installed on several professors' office machines, and could be installed for student use if the need arose.