software assurance in comment and analysis
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Comment It may even be negative.giving people false assurance that something is being done when it won't stop any criminals. No software changes No software upgrades Social networks to stamp out sex offenders [10 Apr 2008]
Are vulnerable times responsible times?
Comment Most people finding bugs in a vendor's software are QA (Quality Assurance) engineers who work for the vendor. When you start talking about advanced release times, publishing exploit code, and introducing a mercenary angle to what is essentially.a... [02 Mar 2005]
Opinion: UK needs cybercrime strategy
Comment The campaign is chaired by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and is supported by Dell, eBay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Microsoft, the CSIA (Central Sponsor for Information Assurance) within the Cabinet Office and the NISCC (National Infrastructure Security... [13 Jan 2005]
IT consulting: Keys to keeping projects on track
Comment By representing all the main project participants - business, user and specialist - it provides assurances that a project remains viable in terms of costs and benefits (business assurance), that the users' requirements are being met (user... [08 Dec 2004]
Leader: 'Soundbite' Ballmer avoids the real issues
Leader No word, however, on the customers who signed up to the Software Assurance licensing framework expecting Longhorn to be released during the length of the contracts and so covered as a free update. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in engaging mood... [04 Oct 2004]
Investors want answers from Microsoft
Comment In particular, people want to see how well Microsoft has done in convincing customers of its older Upgrade Advantage licensing programme to switch to the newer Software Assurance programme. More broadly, software industry watchers will be looking... [22 Jul 2004]
Airline safety procedures for high-tech high flyers...
Comment Never assume anything is 100 per cent safe - nothing ever is - but there is now an established history of checking and quality assurance that seeks to make things 'good enough'. As well as service provider measures, we can all learn to be... [04 Aug 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Spam tax, Microsoft licensing twist and the weakening greenback
Comment One has only to consider the recent launch of its Software Assurance Programs. Put simply, this programme enables employees of organisations with Software Assurance contracts to get a fully licensed copy of Microsoft software to install and use on... [02 Jun 2003]
The Penguin rides again
Comment Microsoft again held its hands up this week and admitted it had not handled the introduction of its controversial Software Assurance licensing changes last summer particularly well. The introduction of new volume licensing agreements forced many... [29 May 2003]
Worm exposes laziness in the IT department
Comment Steve Lipner, director of security assurance for Microsoft,.said: "The problem was that this was a particularly malicious piece of code. The small but malicious Sapphire worm rapidly exploited a six-month-old flaw in Microsoft SQL Server database... [27 Jan 2003]
The Ovum View: The wireless LAN security nightmare
Comment There is less assurance that messages will be delivered because of this protocol discontinuity. Software to intercept messages and to introduce spoof traffic into the network is readily available on the internet and can be run on a laptop. [20 Jun 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Cisco cheer, Microsoft licensing and IBM wrestling with Oracle
Comment The plan was to make life simpler and to offer users more choice by bringing in a new 'software assurance' programme to replace existing one-shot upgrade offerings with a small number of new support and service contracts. [13 May 2002]
Devil's Advocate: The hazards of buying technology
Comment Advansys said that in that case, it could not support use of MC218 with Windows 2000, contrary to their earlier assurance. After scrutinising every word of the specification provided on the Ericsson website and downloading the PC synchronisation... [30 Apr 2002]
John Lamb's Week: Microsoft users are revolting
Comment With the only alternative to Software Assurance being to buy a full licence every time you want to upgrade, companies that don't want every new bit of software are convinced they'll end up paying more. [01 Oct 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft licensing off, nCipher - Broadcom deal on, and some technical consensus
Comment From 1 October Microsoft is introducing its 'Software Assurance' service. Under the new scheme, Software Assurance (SA) replaces all other one-time upgrade options for customers with over 250 PCs. In essence this is a combined licence and support... [01 Oct 2001]
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