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Sweeteners for Windows Enterprise and Office Professional Plus

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Rob Horwitz

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Software Assurance (SA) on Windows Enterprise and Office Professional Plus delivers some product-specific “sweeteners,” as shown here.

The Enterprise Source Licensing Program benefit requires an organization-wide commitment to SA on Windows Enterprise, and the organization must cover at least 2,500 desktops.

The Office Professional Plus Multi-Language Pack is offered free with SA, but it is also available separately from SA for a fee.

The Enterprise Source Licensing Program, Home Use Program, and Office Multi-Language Pack benefits are documented in the monthly Product List. Benefits for HPC applications and Windows Thin PC are documented in the quarterly Product Use Rights.

Product Software Assurance Benefit
Windows Enterprise Enterprise Source Licensing Program. Gain access to Windows source code, mainly for support and troubleshooting purposes.
Right to run clustered HPC applications. Leverage Windows desktops as nodes for high-performance computing applications.

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