Duke Office of Information Technology
OIT Supported Software
OIT supports varied software for PC, Macintosh and UNIX. OIT aims to revise this list just prior to each fall semester but will update products as necessary. OIT reserves the right to decrease support for products when vendors decrease their support for those products.
Please see the Site License page for any additional software and discounted site-licensed prices. Additional volume pricing is available from the Duke Computer Store.
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| L | Limited Support |
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Operating systems | Web browsers | Email clients | Scheduling | SSH and Secure FTP clients | AFS clients | Virus protection and spyware | Firewalls | Web authoring | Media players | Productivity Suites (Office Applications) | Miscellaneous desktop applications
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Windows Vista - Compatibility details | F | |
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Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or above) | F | |
| Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or above) | L | ||
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Mac OS 10.4 and above - Macintosh@Duke | F | |
| Linux@Duke 6 - Duke University Linux Users Group | F | ||
| CentOS 5 - Duke University Linux Users Group | F | ||
Web browsers |
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Firefox 1.5 to 2.x | F | |
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Internet Explorer 7 | F | |
| Internet Explorer 6 (with Service Pack 1 or later) | F | ||
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Safari 3 (Mac) | F | |
Email clients |
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Duke WebMail - http://webmail.duke.edu | F | |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x | F | |
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MacMail for OS X 10.4 and 10.5 | F | |
| Mulberry 3.1.x and above |
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| Microsoft Outlook 2000, XP (2002), 2003, 2007 | F | ||
| Microsoft Outlook Express for Windows XP and Windows Mail for Vista | L | ||
| Pine on the OIT Linux lab computers | F | ||
| Lotus Notes Mail 7 | F | ||
Scheduling/calendars |
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dCal | F | |
| Lotus Notes Calendar | F | ||
SSH and Secure FTP clients |
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WinSCP - Windows Secure Copy application | F | |
| FileZilla | F | ||
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Fugu - Macintosh File Transfer application | F | |
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Putty - Telnet and SSH implementation | F | |
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Terminal for Mac OSX | F | |
AFS clients |
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Webfiles | F |
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Virus protection and spyware |
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McAfee VirusScan 8.5i (PC) | F | |
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VirusScan 8.6 (Mac OS X) | F | |
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Spybot Search & Destroy (latest version) | L | |
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Lavasoft Adaware (latest version) | L | |
Firewalls |
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All supported operating systems Use built-in OS firewall |
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Web authoring tools |
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Adobe Dreamweaver MX or later | L | |
Media players |
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| Windows Media Player | F | ||
| Quicktime | F | ||
| Real Player | F | ||
| iTunes | F | ||
Productivity Suites |
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Microsoft Office 2007 | F | |
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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac | F | |
| Microsoft Office 2003 for PC | F | ||
| Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac | F | ||
| Microsoft Office XP for PC | F | ||
| Microsoft Office X for Mac | L | ||
| OpenOffice | L | ||
Miscellaneous Desktop software |
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| Adobe Acrobat Reader | F | ||
| Java | F | ||
| X-Win32 | F | ||
| Apple X11 (Mac) | F | ||
| Stuffit Expander | F | ||
| WinZip | F | ||
| Advance | F | ||
| Blackboard | F | ||
| Cisco VPN Client (v4.6 or later)< | F | ||
| ePrint | F | ||
| Remedy | F | ||
| PARIS | F | ||
| SAP R/3 | F | ||
| SISS (Peoplesoft Client / ACES Web / Storm) |
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| Gaim/Pidgin (Jabber) | F | ||