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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... [01 Oct 2001]
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... [01 Oct 2001]
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... [13 May 2002]
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... [02 Jun 2003]
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... [08 Dec 2004]
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... [29 May 2003]
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,... [22 Jul 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.... [04 Oct 2004]
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... [02 Mar 2005]
The best of 'Reader Comments': The big merger, code blame and paying for content
Comment In my experience it is lack of software testing and quality assurance that leads to major software bugs not being discovered. Perhaps the government should be considering the consumer... [06 Sep 2001]
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... [30 Apr 2002]
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... [27 Jan 2003]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
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... [10 Apr 2008]
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... [04 Aug 2003]
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... [13 Jan 2005]
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