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Software Assurance (SA) is a Microsoft maintenance program aimed at business users who use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and other server and desktop applications. The core premise behind SA is to give users the ability to spread their payments for the software over multiple years, while offering "free" upgrades to newer versions in that time period.

The full list of benefits, effective March 2006, are as follows:

Upgrade rights to newer versions of software as they become available
Spread payments over multiple years
Windows Preinstallation Environment
for building custom installs of Windows XP & 2003
Windows Vista Enterprise Edition
will only be available to Software Assurance customers
Training: Free IT training from Microsoft, and access to E-Learning, a series of interactive online training tools for users.
Home use: Employees of a company with SA can use an additional copy of Microsoft software at home on their own computers
Employee Purchase Program: Employees also get discounts on retail purchases of Microsoft products
Access to the Windows source code for larger companies (1,500+ desktops)
24x7 telephone and web support
Additional error reporting tools to let administrators collect information on application failures
Free licenses for additional servers provisioned as "Cold backups" of live servers.
Access to Technet managed newsgroups
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
Extended Hotfix support: Typcially Microsoft charges for non-security hotfixes after mainstream support for the product has ended (e.g. 5 years for Windows); this charge is waived for SA customers

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