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Licensing Buoys Microsoft Again
News Microsoft blew away analysts' estimates for its first fiscal quarter, once again buoyed in part by a controversial corporate licensing plan. Under the Licensing 6 program, businesses pay for upgrades on an annuity basis.
[October 18, 2002, 9:08]
SQL Server 2008: Licensing Will Be Exploited To Win Customers
News The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. Dunstan, who is in charge of the battle with Oracle and IBM, said Microsoft will...
[November 15, 2007, 15:00]
Licensing Microsoft Server Products With Microsoft Virtual Server And Other Virtual Machine Technologies
White Papers This white paper provides an overview of updates to Microsoft's licensing models for the server operating system and server applications. It also clarifies existing licensing policies to help to deploy and use software under these updated models.
[August 13, 2007, 0:00]
Licensing Issues Delay VPro Security
News Symantec has delayed its virtualised security system for Intel's vPro platform because of licensing issues around the Windows CE platform, the company said on Tuesday. The problem, Symantec said, is not the software itself, but the tangled...
[August 22, 2007, 9:05]
Licensing Anger Driving Users Towards Linux
Talkback oh your not wrong about the Licensing twists Microsoft has, I just got off the phone today from an MS rep regarding WinMCE 2005. The only way you can get it is if you buy a new PC, no matter that I have WinMCE 2004, there is upgrade.
[November 8, 2004, 18:09]
Licensing Microsoft Server Products With Microsoft Virtual Server And Other Virtual Machine Technologies
White Papers This white paper provides an overview of updates to Microsoft's licensing models for the server operating system and server applications. It also clarifies existing licensing policies to help to deploy and use software under these updated models.
[April 1, 2007, 0:00]
Licensing Anger Driving Users Towards Linux
News A panel discussion on European software licensing models on Monday was in broad agreement that many businesses and organisations are dissatisfied by the service traditionally offered by the software industry.
[November 8, 2004, 15:28]
Licensing Anger Driving Users Towards Linux
Talkback The home user is also getting fed up with the Microsoft Licensing sceme! Make a change to your computer, a new hard drive, a new dvd burner, add memory, even some software programs - AND YOU HAVE TO CALL MICROSOFT TO REACTIVATE THE SYSTEM!
[September 15, 2005, 17:55]
Licensing Programme Angers MS Customers
News With a summer deadline looming, about two-thirds of Microsoft's largest customers have not signed up for a new software licensing programme that represents an important revenue stream for the company.
[May 10, 2002, 14:07]
Licensing Support In The .NET Framework
White Papers This webcast will discuss the licensing features for classes and controls that are provided in Microsoft .NET Framework. It will briefly discuss the default license provider that comes with .NET Framework.
[October 6, 2006, 0:00]
Licensing Anger Driving Users Towards Linux
Talkback Licensing has gotten out of hand. It really started with Microsofts shift to software assurance. If you look at SA and the methods MS used to "entice" companies to use it (threatening audits and legal action is even one license was out of strict...
[November 9, 2004, 12:43]
Oracle Users Dismiss Microsoft Licensing Claims
News The head of the UK Oracle User Group has responded to claims made by Microsoft that the database specialist uses questionable licensing practices to help it gain market share and generate revenue from its customers.
[November 22, 2007, 16:57]
TechNet Webcast: New System Center Server Management Suite And Operations Manager 2007 Licensing Options (Level 100)
White Papers The presenter of this webcast provides an overview of the new functionality, capabilities, and value delivered by the Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise, and the associated licensing changes for Microsoft System Center...
[August 28, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft Licensing Prices Tipped To Fall
News Licensing prices for Microsoft software are set to plunge because of a second-hand market which has sprung up, thanks to a loophole in its terms and conditions. As reported last week, a UK firm called Discount Licensing is buying software licences...
[November 14, 2005, 16:10]
Europe Gets Microsoft Technology Licensing Boost
News Microsoft launched the licensing programme, called IP Ventures, in May. With a focus on small businesses, the six-person programme was a shift for the company, which had focused much of its intellectual-property licensing effort on larger firms.
[January 31, 2006, 8:50]
Food Manufacturer Enhances Collaboration, Processes; Cuts Licensing Costs By $492,000
White Papers That meant adopting more technologies, paying more in licensing fees, and spending more time managing licenses. As a result, it has cut its software-licensing expense by 16 percent, saving U.S.over three years, even as it increases the range of...
[September 28, 2007, 0:00]
EC To Harmonise Licensing Of In-flight Calls
News "Honey, I'm on a plane" will be increasingly overheard on flights — much to the annoyance of some passengers — as the European Commission on Monday unveiled a pan-EU approach to licensing in-flight calls.
[April 8, 2008, 10:38]
Foreign Imports Clear Customs Faster, Under Tighter Control With Online Licensing System
White Papers Faced with economic imperatives to keep foreign trade flowing but under tighter control and security, the Austrian government has introduced a Web-based import licensing system that enables unprecedented co-operation between public agencies.
[October 26, 2003, 23:00]
Server Operating System Licensing & Support Cost Comparison
White Papers Any IT decision maker who’s considering an open source server operating system should check out this paper from BearingPoint, which reveals the results of a 2004 study that compared the licensing and support costs of Windows Server 2003 against...
[July 23, 2005, 0:00]
Customers Shun MS Licensing Plan
News The majority of Microsoft's customers won't be signing up for a controversial licensing plan set to go into effect on Thursday, according to analysts' estimates. But she noted that of the huge number resisting Licensing 6, a good portion chose to...
[July 31, 2002, 7:58]
