To get SA benefits, a company must either purchase a three-year Enterprise Agreement or pay an annual fee of 29% of the license cost for desktop products and 25% for server products they have bought under the Select or Open licensing agreements. Companies buy the contracts for "precisely this reason," Siler said. "It would have been more prudent for me to bypass SA and just purchase a new license when needed," he said.īuzzell added that if his company decides it needs features in Windows Vista Enterprise, he would "hate to be blackmailed into having to make an either/or choice."īut Brian Siler, a lead programmer analyst at Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Hilton Hotels Corp., said it makes sense for Microsoft to offer extra benefits such as Windows Vista Enterprise to SA customers.
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In addition, the Virtual PC Express technology will be bundled with Vista so users can run legacy applications in a virtual machine.ĭavid Buzzell, CIO at The Sedona Group in Moline, Ill., said the staffing firm's first experience with SA turned out to be "totally worthless" after Microsoft didn't deliver a product upgrade in a timely fashion.
Windows Vista Enterprise will also include a feature that lets IT administrators with global deployments localize a single disk image by including all languages supported by Windows. The technology is aimed at helping companies that lose laptop PCs prevent unauthorized users from accessing their data. Full volume encryption is a hardware-based data-protection technology that's one of the key new features pegged for inclusion in Windows Vista Enterprise.
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