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In addition, users with Software Assurance maintenance contracts also will get multitiered malware protection with Antigen
for Exchange, which is antivirus and antispyware software run locally, and online antivirus and antispam services offered
through Exchange Hosted Services, which is the technology from Microsoft’s acquisition of FrontBridge.
The company said the price for the Exchange Standard CAL in Exchange 2007 would be unchanged from its current starting price
of $67.
Microsoft likely faces a hard time pitching upgrades to many Exchange users given that nearly a quarter of its user base migrated
off Exchange 5.5 in the past year. Those users are unlikely to break their upgrade cycles to undertake another expensive migration.
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