The notice was derived from notes obtained after installing the faculty version of 
 Matlab 2014a (64-bit edition) ( the latest version).

1/ The notes apply for an installation on a Windows 7 machine; some of you tried
to install it on  Windows 8 machine(s) and had problems with. Some of the steps
below might help you in resolving some of these problems.

2/ Do not forget to obtain the Product key.

3/ Some of you reported problems with installing that version on a Windows 8 machine;
  If this problem persists, after following all the steps below including step 7 over
  step 6,  install the 32-bit version or an earlier 64-bit version of Matlab.

4/ The first thing that will happen is that a 95MiB file will be downloaded

   Its name might be matlab_R2014a_win64.exe

5/ It will automatically unzip itself and then two things will happen
     - A visual C++ 2005 installation will start
       and then
     - the MATLAB icon will pop up to start the MATLAB installation.

6/ If  for some reason you stop the installation, to resume from it
   DO NOT CLICK the setup icon/program at
    _temp_matlab_R2014a_win64\setup.exe


7/ If you have read carefully the note on  the window that unzipped the
   matlab_R2014a_win64.exe file (step 5), 

   YOU MUST CLICK on another setup program/icon 

    _temp_matlab_R2014a_win64\bin\win64\setup.exe


8/ Therefore 6/ will not work, 7/ should.
   Note that in my case only steps 1-5 were performed; there was no need for
   Step 7.

9/ The 95MiB file is the installation program. Downloading all files might be slow.
   If you decide to download and install everything, it will be more that 2300MiB. 
   The whole process might take  an hour or so.


Sep 11, 2014, 9:27am