Microsoft told to sort out software assurance programme

According to ZDNet, which has a few moles in the Volish focus groups, it seems that Microsoft is planning some fairly sweeping changes and wants to make the whole lot more flexible.

Ray Titcombe, chairman of the Strategic Supplier Relationship Group was convinced that Vole was being much more receptive to feedback.

Currently the Software Assurance Programme is about as useful as a chocolate hard-drive because it forces users to upgrade when they might not want to. It has also suffered from the fact that Longhorn has been pushed back so much that users have been paying for a major software upgrade that they never got. µ

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