Leonid S. Knyshov

In the spirit of Eric Ligman, who always comes up with crazy ways to get customers with fewer than 5 employees enrolled into Open Value volume license agreements (did you hear the one about using $8 licenses for Office Mobile to open an Open Business agreement http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2010/03/18/microsoft-open-license-basics-the-8-way-into-microsoft-volume-licensing.aspx), I decided to illustrate some of my creative [...]

Simply put, Microsoft Software Assurance really allows you to get the support you need when you need it. It is expensive to support older software. Professionals like me have a huge knowledge base about the product, but after a while all that version-specific knowledge fades away. We forget the tricky workarounds to bugs, we assume [...]

A little birdie known as Microsoft Partner Program dropped this package at my door step In it I have a lovely3x6′ banner proclaiming that I am a Microsoft Small Business Specialist. That’s not as obnoxious as my 4×8′ Vista launch tour banner though. I also got a DVD named “Windows Foundation Server 2008R2″. I decided [...]