This past August Microsoft began using security to induce more customers to opt for Software Assurance.

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Microsoft is leveraging the immediacy and urgency of security updates to force customers into paying for Software Assurance.

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If they knew a new version was coming out in less than two years it may be worth paying for Software Assurance.

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And, if you read the fine print, you will discover that in order to get virus signature updates ( a requirement for any AV product), you must have Software Assurance!

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Software Assurance is a clever protection racket.

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Could it be a role as counter-intuitive as the software quality assurance engineer, as revealed by Careerbliss?

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For instance, software quality assurance engineers and testers currently have 79, 060 listings.

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Organizations generally will not allow software to be released until it has been fully tested and approved by their software quality assurance group, he adds.

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While it's been possible for ages to record keyboard and mouse commands as macros, quality assurance teams sometimes can't have any tracking software running -- a real pain when trying to recreate a bug in an online RPG or other input-heavy apps.

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Reuveni has expertise in software development and his co-founder, Roy Solomon, brought the quality assurance chops.

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