The price of an Enterprise Agreement Subscription (EAS) was reduced 10% in Jan. 2010, as Microsoft copes with an economic downturn by focusing on agreements that cost customers less in the short run. While a standard Enterprise Agreement (EA) offers perpetual licenses for every PC or user in an organization and always include Software Assurance (SA, Microsoft's maintenance and upgrade plan), an EAS customer pays an annual subscription fee to use the latest version of the software and get related SA benefits, but does not get perpetual licenses that permit use of the software after the agreement ends.

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