• Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) is a Microsoft maintenance program aimed at business users who use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and other server...
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  • Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft...
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  • optimisation technique Software architect Software architecture Microsoft Software Assurance Structured analysis, a software engineering technique Suffix...
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  • Software assurance (SwA) is a critical process in software development that ensures the reliability, safety, and security of software products. It involves...
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  • Nano Server is only available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers and on cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services...
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  • Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of utilities for Microsoft Windows customers who have subscribed to Microsoft Software Assurance...
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    the Picture Manager graphics software to open, manage, and share digital images. With the release of Office 2003, Microsoft rebranded the Office productivity...
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  • EA/SA (Enterprise Agreement/Software Assurance) is a volume licensing package offered by Microsoft. It primarily targets large organizations which have...
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  • Additional security features—including built-in antivirus software, integration with Microsoft SmartScreen phishing filtering, and support for Secure Boot...
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    document. In some organizations, software testing is part of a software quality assurance (SQA) process.: 347  In SQA, software process specialists and auditors...
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    through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields. Microsoft is the...
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  • Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released...
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    discontinued, paid Premium Assurance program (an add-on to Microsoft Software Assurance) available to volume license customers. Microsoft will, however, honor...
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    division, are located at Microsoft West Campus. MGS made a number of acquisitions of studios to help build out the Xbox software library over its first...
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  • did not apply to Enterprise editions, as customers under an active Software Assurance (SA) contract with upgrade rights are entitled to obtain Windows 10...
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  • Preinstallation Environment Microsoft Servers For more information on how Microsoft licenses its products, see Microsoft Software Assurance, DreamSpark, DreamSpark...
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    add functionality. Visual Studio Code is proprietary software released under the "Microsoft Software License", but based on the MIT licensed program named...
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  • Premium Assurance SQL Server Premium Assurance" (PDF). Licensing School. Retrieved April 27, 2025. Mackie, Kurt (July 13, 2018). "Microsoft Replacing...
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  • software are common targets for critics. In the 2000s, a number of malware mishaps targeted security flaws in Windows and other products. Microsoft was...
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  • The Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL1 through EAL7) of an IT product or system is a numerical grade assigned following the completion of a Common Criteria...
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  • against Microsoft as people found themselves with new computers that were unable to use the new software to its full potential despite the assurance of "Vista...
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    developing software involves several stages. The stages include software design, programming, testing, release, and maintenance. Software quality assurance and...
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  • existing hardware and software at launch, changes affecting the compatibility of certain PC games, and unclear assurances by Microsoft that certain computers...
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    developing the first version of its desktop publishing software, Microsoft Publisher, around 1991, Microsoft wanted to help users create well-presented documents...
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  • Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating...
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  • engineering Software architecture Software bug Software quality assurance Software quality control Software metrics Software reusability Software standard...
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  • changed. Independent software vendor such as Microsoft may provides reference software localization guidelines for developers. The software localization language...
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  • discontinued, paid Premium Assurance program (an add-on to Microsoft Software Assurance) available to volume license customers. Microsoft will, however, honor...
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