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Software Assurance lacked confidence from the first
Leader In 2002, ZDNet UK reported critical analysis of the introduction of Microsoft's Software Assurance programme. July 31, 2002: The most controversial piece of Licensing 6 is Software Assurance, through which businesses pay 29 percent annually of the...
[September 16, 2005, 13:40]
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance
White Papers The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance is a suite of six products sold as an add-on subscription license available to Software Assurance customers. MDOP will enable users to better control the desktop, accelerate and...
[June 3, 2009, 1:20]
Momentum Webcast: Determine the Value of Software Assurance Renewal (Level 100)
White Papers This webcast has been specifically tailored for growing and mid-sized organizations that have a Microsoft Software Assurance agreement through the Open Business, Open Value, Select License, or Enterprise Agreement programs.
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance
White Papers Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance is a dynamic desktop solution available only to Software Assurance Customers. It helps reduce application deployment costs, enable the delivery of applications as services, and allow for...
[June 2, 2009, 1:18]
Microsoft extends software assurance to disasters
News The software maker said that starting from 1 June, businesses in its Software Assurance programme will be able to make a duplicate copy for each server software product that they license. Also, the rights to store the extra copy are good only as...
[May 20, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft revamps Software Assurance
News Microsoft revamped its Software Assurance product for large firms, SMEs and professionals on Tuesday with eight new features. Software Assurance is a licensing scheme that allows companies to buy Microsoft products and upgrades on a subscription...
[March 14, 2006, 12:10]
Oracle Software Security Assurance
White Papers Oracle Software Security Assurance comprises all the processes, procedures, and technologies that have been implemented to ensure that Oracle's products are meeting the customers' security requirements, while providing for the most cost-effective...
[February 24, 2007, 0:00]
Momentum Webcast: Determining the Value of Software Assurance Renewal for Your Organization (Level 100)
White Papers This webcast is designed for growing and mid-sized organizations that have a Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) agreement through the Open Business, Open Value, Select, or Enterprise Agreement (EA) programs.
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
Analysts see brighter future for Software Assurance
News Analysts have predicted that many companies that have not yet bought into Microsoft's previously underused Software Assurance scheme will now make the move — not because they want to, but because they will soon have to.
[March 16, 2006, 10:50]
Microsoft shakes up Software Assurance
News Microsoft has revamped its Software Assurance licensing programme in response to customer feedback that the scheme was too expensive, complex and restrictive. The changes include a Desktop Deployment Planning voucher that customers with either...
[September 15, 2005, 13:25]
Microsoft Software Assurance Benefits for Education
White Papers The presenter will explore the benefits of Microsoft's Software Assurance program for Education. The attendee will learn how to gain control of the technology strategy and effectively plan for new software deployments.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Microsoft 'must do better' on software assurance
News The UK IT industry is looking for big improvements to Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing programme, when the supplier announces changes to the scheme on Thursday. A cross-section of analysts, resellers and IT directors agreed on Tuesday that...
[September 13, 2005, 16:45]
The Business of Software Quality: Virtusa's Innovative Software Quality Assurance Approach
White Papers The software industry has witnessed a dramatic rise in the impact and effectiveness of software quality assurance recently. From its day of infancy, when a handful of software pioneers explored the first applications of quality assurance, to the...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Kimberly-Clark Expands Training 16 Percent With Software Assurance Training Vouchers
White Papers To expand its training program, the company uses training vouchers provided as part of its Microsoft Software Assurance for Volume Licensing benefits. Kimberly-Clark, maker of some of the world's best-known consumer paper products, is constantly...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft 'must do better' on software assurance
Talkback Too many have been burned by software assurance, it's been a scam. The majority who have signed up for it have ended up paying more and gotten more or less nothing in return: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0308licensing.html
[September 13, 2005, 19:48]
Software Assurance lacked confidence from the first
Talkback Even stranger. Customers actually reward this kind of customer approach by buying into it. As someone once said: you get what you pay for. Usually more of it.
[September 17, 2005, 2:18]
Microsoft extends software assurance to disasters
Talkback What happens if I buy Windows Server, install it twice (once on the "cold" server), then later buy Exchange server. Am I allowed to turn on the cold server to install it there too? And what's the point in having this backup server if it can't...
[May 20, 2004, 11:29]
Microsoft revamps Software Assurance
Talkback "Training" days == captive marketing session. Oh, the gall they have to charge extra for that.
[March 14, 2006, 14:44]
Microsoft extends software assurance to disasters
Talkback To my mind, in conjunction with 'Ttraining Vouchers' and the 'Home Use Programme' this is one of the single biggest business benefits to clients who participate in Software Assurance. Many of my clients have had to fork out twice for DR licences...
[May 21, 2004, 10:04]
