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Windows Vista Enterprise only for Software Assurance customers
"There will probably be some pushback on that. There's already been pushback on buying Software Assurance because there's no guarantee [software] will be released during the term of the customer contract, " said David Orvis, license management services strategist at Software Spectrum, a Plano, Texas-based solution provider and major Microsoft reseller. "In some cases, it will help Microsoft get Software Assurance contracts. But Vista Enterprise being an entitlement only on SA? It will be a major issue. But I don't know how much of a backlash there will be."
Microsoft partners and industry analysts expect opposition to the requirement, since it is estimated that only 50 percent of Microsoft's business customers buy Software Assurance.
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Software Assurance is a huge scam. For example, you can purchase Software Assurance (SA) for Client Access Licenses (CAL's) for various Windows Server Products. This allows you to change your CAL's from User based to Device based, or vise versa, when you have such a need (more users than devices or more devices than users). However the price of a CAL for exchange is about $60, but the price of a CAL with SA is about $90. So if you have 200 users/devices you'll pay $6000 more for SA when you could easily just add 100 more regular CAL's for that price as you see fit.
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It's because M$ doesn't have enough money ;-) Just 30M$ a day i think.
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