Staff/Faculty Officially Supported Software

Below are our officially supported software solutions for University-owned PCs and devices. Please note that some of these may require purchasing a license, which we may be able to assist with. If you would like to request any of the software listed below, or have a question about something that is not listed here, please email the IT helpdesk and helpdesk@msutexas.edu 

Accessibility  

  • Kurzweil 3000  
  • NVDA  

 

Engineering Applications  

  • ANSYS  
  • Automation Studio 
  • National Instruments LabView Suite  
  • Solidworks  

 

File Compression and Encryption  

  • 7-zip (Windows)  
  • PGP Desktop (Windows)  
  • KEKA (Mac)  

 

FTP & SSH  

  • Filezilla (Windows & Mac)  
  • SSH Secure Shell  
  • Putty  
  • WinSCP (Windows)

 

Internet Browsing  

  • Microsoft Edge  
  • Google Chrome  
  • Mozilla Firefox  
  • Safari  

 

Multimedia editing and viewing  

  • Adobe Creative Cloud  
  • Audacity  
  • GIMP 2.0  
  • Paint.NET  
  • VLC Media Player  

 

Office productivity & document creation  

  • Office 2024 for Windows, Office 2024 for Mac  
  • Office 365 (online only)  
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 
  • Grammarly  

 

Online File Storage  

  • OneDrive  

 

Programming and Mathematics  

  • Visual Studio Community  
  • Notepad++  
  • Python  
  • BBCode (Mac) 
  • Maple  
  • MatLab  
  • Minitab  

 

Screen Recording and Capture  

  • SnagIt  
  • Microsoft Powerpoint  
  • Camtasia  

 

Statistics, Analysis and Data  

  • SPSS  
  • Stata  
  •  
  • SAS  

 

Web conferencing and collaboration  

  • Zoom  
  • Microsoft Teams