REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 15, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will add and enhance benefits to its maintenance offering, Software Assurance (SA). The new benefits, scheduled to be ...

Microsoft plans to bolster the Software Assurance component of its volume licensing program next month with several additional benefits covering deployment services, enhanced support, training and ...

Analysts say customers are dumping it, Microsoft says they're signing up in droves. Is the truth somewhere in the middle? Software Assurance (SA), Microsoft's annuity-licensing plan, is nothing if not ...

Microsoft Corp. faces a revolt among enterprise customers over its Software Assurance maintenance program, an analyst said today, because of long stretches between upgrades and simple economics. In ...