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		<title><![CDATA[Two questions about Microsoft's future ...]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two questions about Microsoft's future ...The evil of subscriptionHow would an OS subscription be anything other than a complete rip-off to the end user? There are so many reasons why a subscription system would fail and fail badly. The cost of implementation, activation issues, anti-piracy concerns. All of this and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:22:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Facing Microsoft licensing decisions? Bridge the gap between Operations and Sourcing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/forrester/?p=156]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not to sign or renew an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft is a sticky question that many organizations face. For many companies out there, their spend on Microsoft licensing can be a significant portion of a company's IT budget, whether it be Enterprise Agreements or Select License agreements. Some...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Microsoft program to make volume licenses 'evergreen']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1467]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft took the wraps off a new licensing program -- Select Plus -- which company officials said is aimed at simplifying software and services purchases by large and mid-size businesses. by Mary Jo Foley]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:03:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Software Assurance: An Overview of Current Industry Best Practices]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=359109]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Software underpins the information infrastructure that governments, critical infrastructure providers and businesses worldwide depend upon for daily operations and business processes. These organizations widely and increasingly use commercial off-the-shelf software ("COTS") to automate processes with information technology. At the same time, cyber attacks are becoming more stealthy and sophisticated, creating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=995523]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 better management and control of the desktop environment. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=995531]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 uses innovative technologies to help reduce the Total Cost of Ownership TCO of the Windows desktop by accelerating operating system and application management...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Momentum Webcast: Software Assurance Benefits for You and Your Employees: Home Use Program and Employee Purchase Program (Level 100)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=337065]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This webcast explains how to take advantage of two of the most popular software assurance benefits. The attendee of this webcast will how the Home Use and Employee Purchase can help increase employees' satisfaction and productivity - and reduce company's IT burden. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does payback on email alone make Google Apps' $50/yr. worth it? (Docs, etc? That's icing)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=838]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I talk about doing something crazy like using Google Apps instead of other office suites, a conversation that's usually driven by my beliefs about computing in the cloud, there are some number of ZDNet readers that chalk it off to insanity or a momentary lapse of reason.  Or,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:30:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Windows Seven: Think 2010]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=592]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows Seven now has an official ship target -- 2010.At  Microsoft's Global Exchange MGX annual sales conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft shared a bit more -- albeit at a high level -- on Windows Seven, according to a copy of a slide deck I saw that was distributed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:01:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report finds Microsoft customers increasingly leery of Software Assurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=35988&messageID=661921&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Report finds Microsoft customers increasingly leery of Software AssuranceMicrosoft trying to milk this so aggressively will hurt them in the longrun. They would be much better off cutting prices right now, or the prices will be in a free-fall later.The other problem is that MS needs to drastically reduce the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:36:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report finds Microsoft customers increasingly leery of Software Assurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=560]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft subscription maintenance program for its volume licensees has never been overly popular. But according to a new report from Forrester Research, Software Assurance is looking like even less of a good deal to Microsoft customers than before.Microsoft introduced Software Assurance SA in 2001, and has tweaked continually the SA...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:08:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Software Assurance, SAM Help German Logistics Provider Guarantee Compliance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=354842]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[German logistics provider Hafen und Guterverkehr Koln AG HGK was unsure whether its many Microsoft software licenses were in compliance at the time of an announced Microsoft software license review. The company hired DATALOG Software AG to assess its license compliance. As a result of its Software Asset Management assessment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TechNet Webcast: Accelerate Desktop Deployment With the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (Level 200)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=384867]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Enterprise IT infrastructures are increasingly complex to deploy and manage. This webcast introduce the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, an add-on subscription for customers with Software Assurance coverage for their Windows desktops. It explores the innovative tools and technologies in the Desktop Optimization Pack that are designed to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Out of the mouths of Redmond watchers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=51]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, Microsoft watchers say the darndest things. And many times, I am right there with them.   Here are a few favorite sound bites on some of Microsofts recent strategic moves on the spending and licensing fronts:  R&D: Its not rocket science. Or is it?  Microsoft CEO...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:43:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Momentum Webcast: Determine the Value of Software Assurance Renewal (Level 100)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=894043]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to organization can benefit from renewing the Microsoft Software Assurance agreement. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Post-October Windows PC purchases likely to include coupon for Vista]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=24192&messageID=454119&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Post-October Windows PC purchases likely to include coupon for Vista6 Years Ago6 years ago, Apple shipped a OS with protected memory and the stability that comes with it, restricted administrative access and the security that comes with it, and a vector imaging engine that leveraged the GPU, with it came...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft shakes up Software Assurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-9593-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=13417&messageID=267837&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft shakes up Software AssuranceHere's a crazy thoughtThey could lower their bloated prices across the board.Microsoft shakes up Software AssuranceThey need to keep shaking.  Free MS consulting still doesn't justify purchasing a Software Assurance lottery ticket. There are businesses who purchased Software Assurance in order to get Microsoft's "next-generation...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:58:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Software Assurance not so assuring?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software Assurance not so assuring?Control, control, control...Microsoft has allowed companies to install software on a dedicated cold  back-up server? How many lawyers do these companies hire just understand and comply with these onerous licensing schemes? And they get to keep paying MS again and again for the pleasure of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft lays out management software plan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft lays out management software planLong road to catch upFinally Microsoft is entering into the ITSM ITIL arena with product.Just that, HP and others, have an incredible advantage over MS. Lots of installation and field experience to prove a model develop 20 years ago.re : MS aims to streamline Windows...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:53:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Momentum Webcast: Determining the Value of Software Assurance Renewal for Your Organization (Level 100)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The presenter of this webcast explains how organizations can benefit from renewing their Software Assurance agreement with Microsoft. The attendee will...]]></description>
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