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Non-profit, academic, and government customers have a similar set of options through special licensing programs designed just for them. If you have over 250 PCs in your company, then you could also purchase Windows upgrade licenses and SA through a Select Plus or Enterprise Agreement. (I’ll be writing a blog post on these programs soon which will provide more details.) You can either go with Open Business licenses which provides two years of SA and requires an upfront payment, or you can go with Open Value licenses which provides three years of SA and includes an option to spread out your payments. If you’re not interested in buying new machines at this point, then the other option is to purchase Windows Pro upgrade licenses with SA through volume licensing. (For more details on OEM licenses, see my previous post here.)

Microsoft provides a 90-day window (no pun intended) for you to add SA to OEM licenses.

If you’re up for a hardware refresh, then you can purchase new PCs with Windows Pro and then purchase Software Assurance for the licenses included on those new machines. If you are not licensed for Windows 8 Enterprise, then you have a couple of options. Simply log into the site and go to the tab marked “Downloads and Keys.” There you will find a link to download the new software. You can learn more about these features on Microsoft’s website here and decide if they are for you.Īs Drew said in his post, if you are already licensed for Windows 8 Enterprise (in other words, you have a Windows 8 Pro license with SA), then you can download Windows 8.1 Enterprise off the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. On that list, you can see that Windows 8.1 Enterprise offers these unique features: Unlike Windows 8.1 Pro and plain vanilla Windows 8.1, it is not available as a “stand-alone” purchase.Ī feature set of all four versions of Windows 8.1 is available here. It is the most robust version of Windows available today, and to get the extra features you must go the extra mile in your commitment with Microsoft by buying SA. Windows 8.1 Enterprise is a version of Windows that is only available as a Software Assurance (SA) benefit. (And for the record, there is also “plain vanilla” Windows 8.1 as well.) Many people are familiar with Windows RT (which only comes on the cheapest versions of the Surface tablet), and they are familiar with regular Windows and Windows Professional as well.īut what is Windows Enterprise and how do you get it? In his post, he mentioned the different versions of Window 8.1: Windows 8.1 RT, Windows 8.1 Pro, and Windows 8.1 Enterprise. In his usual witty style, my colleague Drew Haney provided a review of Windows 8.1 last week.