Open License for Academic

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Microsoft Open License Overview
Open License is a good volume licensing option if you are a corporate, academic, charitable, or government organization that wants to pay as you go. Because you pay for licenses as you need them, you get maximum flexibility to grow with your organization’s increasing and changing business needs.
The Open License agreement requires a minimum initial purchase of five software licenses, but you can acquire additional licensed products through Open License in any quantity at any time during the two-year agreement term. Microsoft® Software Assurance for Volume Licensing can be purchased at the time of the license purchase to help you get the most out of your software investment.

Benefits
The Open License program offers many benefits, including the following:

Manage Your Licenses More Easily

• Place an order and start using Microsoft licensed products immediately through a flexible pay as you go model, eliminating the need for forecasting.
• Once an order is placed, receive a single Authorization Identification Number that you can reuse and share with qualified affiliates used when placing future orders to ensure the two-year price level throughout the two-year agreement.
• Manage licenses easily and conveniently through online tracking tools. With the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC), you can electronically manage your license orders, review purchase history, download purchased software, obtain Volume License Keys (VLKs) to activate software, and track compliance.

Take Control of Your IT Investment

• You can upgrade licensed product organization-wide while staying within your budget.
• Pay at the time you acquire software licenses with a one-time transaction.
• License and deploy software products as you need with a flexible purchasing process.

Have More Licensing Flexibility

• Because you pay for licenses as you need them, you get maximum flexibility to grow with your organization’s increasing and changing business needs.
• You have easy access to the latest Microsoft technology through a broad worldwide reseller channel, helping ensure that you have convenient and fast access to thousands of software titles.
• You have the option to purchase Software Assurance.
• If your organization requires Microsoft’s enterprise solutions, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Enterprise CAL, and Microsoft® Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) are now available.

Manage Your Software Costs More Efficiently

• Offers discounts off the retail price of software product licenses to stretch software procurement
  budgets farther

Accessing License Information
When Microsoft processes an Open License order, it creates the authorization number and license number and posts them to VLSC within 24 hours reflecting the updated license status. Once you have placed an order, access to the following information will be available:

• Authorization number
• License number
• Name and address of purchaser
• Date of initial order
• Expiration of authorization number (Software Assurance expiration date)
• Products and quantity ordered

Microsoft electronically delivers Open Licenses through the VLSC, where you can view information about the Open License online. You need a Windows Live ID, an Open License authorization number, and a license number corresponding to that authorization number to access this website.