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Microsoft yesterday made it easier for school and university students to obtain a free subscription to Office 365 by sidestepping institutional IT and going to the self-serve line. A year ago, the Redmond, Wash. Technology company announced ',' a program under which educational institutions that licensed Office Professional Plus 2013 or Office 365 ProPlus could also hand Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions to students, free of charge.

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The program was available to both K-12 and higher education. [ Related: ] Office Professional Plus 2013 is traditionally-licensed software -- sometimes called a 'perpetual license' because it can be used as long as one wants to stick with it -- while Office 365 ProPlus is a subscription service, part of Microsoft's broad effort to shift customers to a rent-not-buy model. To participate in Student Advantage, school districts and universities must have licensed Office for staff and faculty institution-wide. The biggest problem with Student Advantage was its implementation: Students, or in the case of many middle schoolers and high schoolers, their parents, had to contact the district's or college's IT department. In turn, administrators had to check eligibility, create an account and process the Office 365 subscription order before a student could sign in and start downloading the suite. When Computerworld reported on the launch of Student Advantage last year, it was inundated with emails from parents who wanted to know how they could get Office 365 for their children. Computerworld's only recommendation: Contact IT.

[ ] But most parents had no idea how to do that, having had little or no contact with their school district's IT department. Yesterday, Microsoft removed that barrier by founding a self-serve process for students and parents. Students 13 or older can obtain Office 365 for free using only their school-assigned email address. When the email address is entered into, Microsoft does an eligibility check.