Free software

There’s a ton of free software downloads (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Windows 10 activation keys, and more) buried in the nested menus on info.tsinghua.

Note

Some of the software (e.g. Visual Studio Pro, Excel, Powerpoint) is in Chinese. Generally, they have the same functionality as the English versions, but may be a bit of a hassle to use for those who don’t speak Chinese. I’ll update this article if I find a way to swap languages for the MS Office apps.

  1. Sign in to info.tsinghua and then search the landing page (Cmd + F) for 软件资源.
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  1. Hover your mouse over the 软件资源 item in the sidebar on the left and click 软件资源 (same name) from the popup menu.

You should land here (see below)…

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Software available for download is sorted by “type”.

  1. Click the orange dropdown arrow to the right of the title in each column to view all the downloads available for that type.

Here’s a quick table that should get you going in the right direction.

English Chinese Example
Operating Systems 操作系统 Windows 10 activation keys
AntiVirus 反病毒软件 Kaspersky, NOD32
Office 办公软件 Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Developer 开发软件 Visual Studio Pro
Math/Stat 计算软件 Matlab