Microsoft Streamlines Volume Licensing Programs
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Microsoft is working to make its volume licensing programs simpler for business customers.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has clarified how licensing for its current version of Windows Server works when paired with virtualization software. However, customers may face a whole new set of licensing rules once the next version, Windows Server 2008, is released later this year.
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Record labels and Microsoft are in discussions about ways that the next generation of the Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, can support copy-protected CD technology.
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Trying to head off growing competition from open-source rivals, Microsoft is expanding a program to give government organizations access to some of its tightly guarded software blueprints.
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For subscription services such as Napster and RealRhapsody, the entrance of Microsoft into its business space might have the same &quot;Oh no!
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday agreed to require only a single license for server software that runs on computers powered by a new generation of chips
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday a program that will pay some transition costs for companies that want to move from Novell&#39;s NetWare operating system onto servers running Windows.
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Corporate licences make for happy software vendors
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Microsoft is expanding its indemnification program for Windows and other software products in order to shield users from legal claims and patent disputes.
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Microsoft plans to block access to some features by unlicensed versions of OS.
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Microsoft is offering protection against patent claims for Office binary formats under its Open Specification Promise.
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SAN JOSE, California - Microsoft Corp. has strategically nurtured its Windows Media Player, making it by far the world&#39;s most dominant program for playing digital music and video on computers.
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The new Open Value Subscription program gives additional software license options to small businesses.
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Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company&#39;s software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.
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A new program can circumvent the company's safeguards and make the copying of music and videos relatively easy.
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Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites.
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If large businesses use tools such as Microsoft's Solution Accelerator Business Desktop Deployment package (assuming it's easier to use than it is to say), the administrative "best practices" those tools will help them adopt could save them somewhat more per PC than what they spent for the license, according to a Gartner study advanced by a Microsoft product manager who spoke with BetaNews.