Microsoft Software Assurance is a maintenance program that you can select at the time of a software purchase. It can be used immediately and through the term of your licensing agreement. Software Assurance provides a broad range of benefits, including exclusive technology, training, support, deployment services, and rights to future upgrades. These benefits are available for you to use throughout the software management life cycle, so you can access them when you need them.

Software Assurance Benefits contribute to the return on your technology investment, providing better budget predictability, minimized downtime, improved productivity, and lower operating expenses associated with employee development, deployment, and support costs. Software Assurance may also offer other advantages depending on how you activate and use the benefits.

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