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To: zeugma
Microsoft's "Software Assurance" program and its history is a part of the public record.

Prove it started in 1991, as you claimed. Then admit this thread you created his since been debunked as the obvious BS it is, as well. Else, remain full of it, and reply with nothing but your tired, ineffective, personal attacks, being all you ever seem to have left.

37 posted on 03/08/2006 2:28:52 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
I'll call a mea culpa on that. It was 2001, as was noted at the beginning of the article I previously posted here.

Here's the link I posted earlier.

This is the first paragraph of the link. The first three words clue the year.


 

Microsoft Software Licensing

July 23, 2002

Microsoft last year began a transition to the "Select 6.0" software licensing program for Berkeley and other academic institutions. The prime feature of this program is the elimination of software upgrades, in favor of something Microsoft calls "Software Assurance." Under Software Assurance, you can pay about twice as much as the normal cost of a license, to buy the right to install any upgrades for the next two to three calendar years. (Software Assurance always expires on December 31st, so if you buy it late in the year, it's good for slightly more than two years, but if you buy it in January, it's good for almost three years).


 

I totally screwed up on the year. Should have been 2001, not 1991. Don't know why I had 1991 on the brain. Probably because of some maintennance I had done on my car the other day.

Unlike some folks, I admit my mistakes.

 

42 posted on 03/08/2006 4:43:28 PM PST by zeugma (Anybody who says XP is more secure than OS X or Linux has been licking toads.)
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