McCombs students As a McCombs student you are required to have a notebook computerscomputer. Much of the software used in McCombs Business School courses is available for students you to install on these notebooksyour own computer. The vast majority of installable this software is available to you for free from the software publisher or free to current students through some academic program. A handful of applications must be purchased but require you to purchase them, but they are still available at greatly reduced prices for studentsas long as you are a current student.
The applications listed below are the ones available for students to you to install onto their own personal laptop or home desktop computer.
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Certain applications are available as part of a basic Windows VM that students can obtain from the SWAT Shop at CBA 1.324. These VMs are primarily intended for Mac users who need to use this software offline instead of using mCloud Apps. Students should who do not have a Windows computer or an existing Windows VM for their Mac computer should use mCloud Apps for these applications whenever possible.
For more information about how to use these on a Mac please see the Mac User Survival Guide.
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Not all of the software available for student computers is available for Mac computers. Mac users have two main options to address this issue:
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- VMWare Fusion is a commercial application available from VMWare that normally sells for around $70 at the campus computer store. The Business school participates in an academic program that allows students in its courses to obtain this software for free. Fusion is the preferred option we suggest for business student Mac users that do not already use some virtualization software.
- Virtual Box is free an can be downloaded at https://www.virtualbox.org/.
- Parallels is a commercial application available at http://www.parallels.com/ for around $80.
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on your own computer. Click the name of an application to go to that application's profile page. The profile page for each application explains where you can download the software or where you must purchase the software in few cases.it also lists where else the application is available for you to use without installing on your own computers.
If help pages exist to explain how to install or use the software, those will also be listed. If Lynda.com contains training videos related to the software, then that will be listed as well. Lynda.com is a professional online training company and university partner that provides business and software training for all current faculty, staff and students. For more information about Lynda.com please visit Lynda at McCombs.
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A note about Mac Users and Virtual Machines
If you are a Mac user, you can still install Windows only software onto your computer if you run Windows as a virtual machine. McCombs Computer Services distributes ready made Windows VMs to students that run inside an application called VirtualBox. For more information about obtaining these VMs please visit the Installing OVA files with VirtualBox on a Mac wiki page.
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The SWAT Shop does also offer two pre-build Windows VMs. Once contains Palisade Decision Tools preinstalled and the other contains Visual Studio preinstalled. These VMs were distributed to students prior to mCloud Apps. The SWAT Shop will provide these to students where necessary, students are strongly encourages to instead use mCloud apps wherever possible.