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Microsoft Launches 'charity Friendly' Software Licence
News Microsoft has created a special software licence for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 that allows charities and schools to use second-hand PCs without breaking the company's end user licence rules. The catch is that because the computers were sold with...
[April 8, 2004, 17:50]
Microsoft Ditches Vista Transfer Limits
News Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista licence to a different computer.
[November 6, 2006, 9:17]
Microsoft Defends Windows CE Code-share
News In a teleconference, Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technical officer for Advanced Strategies and Policy, confirmed that the agreement requires developers to licence any derivative code back to Microsoft for use in future versions of Windows CE.
[April 10, 2003, 13:28]
Microsoft's Draft Licence, Step By Step
News In last year's European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can "achieve full...
[March 18, 2005, 17:10]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
Talkback you cannot buy a branded PC without paying for windows already, the cash straped public services for example have special licence that are purchased (site licence i think) but when they buy a PC they are paying for the licence again.
[April 11, 2006, 3:49]
Microsoft: DRM Trojan Hole Is Not A Vulnerability
News The Spanish security company said that virus writers had released licence-protected multimedia files containing Trojan horses (WmvDownloader.A and WmvDownloader.B) that can exploit the anti-piracy features in version 10 of the Media Player and...
[January 14, 2005, 12:15]
Microsoft To Push Out Revised Validation Tool
News Finally, Microsoft has improved the process to help users get a legitimate Windows licence if needed. In the original version, WGA Notifications displayed only a wordy user licence, which people typically don't read.
[November 29, 2006, 8:21]
Hackers Hijack Microsoft DRM
News According to a warning posted on security company Panda Software's Web site, virus writers have released licence-protected multimedia files containing Trojan horses that overcome the anti-piracy features in version 10 of the Media Player and...
[January 12, 2005, 15:10]
MySQL 4.1 Uses Microsoft Code
News Microsoft made the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset available under an open-source licence in April 2004. If Microsoft releases something under public licence we will use it," he said.
[October 11, 2004, 15:30]
DeviceLock 5.7 review
Reviews You can try a 30-day trial version for free; after that, you must pay 31.2 euros (~£21) for a single-user licence (a 200-user licence costs £1,530, and a 2,000-user licence costs £4,590). The program works with Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows Server...
[August 12, 2005, 17:05]
NT Server 4.0 To Disappear In July 2003
News To do this, companies have to buy a Windows 2000 licence for every NT 4.0 licence they want; Microsoft says they can later upgrade to Windows 2000 at no extra cost. The company stopped selling Windows NT Server 4.0 volume licences for both the...
[December 7, 2001, 13:35]
XP Uptake 'too Slow' - Microsoft
News Rather than pay for a companywide licence to use the latest version of Windows, SecureMethods just takes whatever OS comes installed on new PCs. Otherwise, Gartenberg said, companies won't buy the next licence, or the one after that.
[April 13, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft Won't Dance With Samba
News The Free Software Foundation is lobbying the European government to reject the server licence that Microsoft has proposed following the European Commission's antitrust ruling. This licence must be granted on "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms...
[January 28, 2005, 13:20]
NHS Renews Microsoft Agreement
News Connecting for Health (CfH), the NHS national IT upgrade programme, has renewed its custom licence agreement with Microsoft covering the provision of desktop services over the next three years. The renewal is the first of the three-year...
[July 17, 2007, 13:41]
Microsoft Accuses UK Companies Of Software Piracy
News Microsoft claims that it is aware of the company's directors selling counterfeit products including Microsoft Office 97 Licence packs, Microsoft Windows 98 OEM packs and Microsoft Office Professional 97.
[August 22, 2001, 15:44]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have an unused Genuine Windows Advantage XP or Vista, and to reuse anything would be against the licence. And I couldn't run the more inexpensive versions of Vista in a virtual...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
Windows Genuine Advantage Circumvented
News The company has been testing the WGA licence check on its Download Center and Windows Update Web sites for several months. Microsoft confirmed that the technique could circumvent the licence check, but a representative said Monday that the company...
[May 24, 2005, 9:05]
BBC IPlayer Launch On, Despite Crack
News It has already attracted controversy and criticism over the decision to use proprietary technology for a platform supposedly catering to all licence-fee-payers — at its launch it will work only on computers running Windows XP — but the recent...
[July 17, 2007, 13:48]
Developers Sceptical About Microsoft Concessions
News Another industry official, who holds a Windows source-code licence, said: "None of the concessions they are supposedly offering damages them in any way. According to a copy of one Windows licence examined by ZDNet News, "Microsoft retains all right...
[March 30, 2000, 8:37]
Microsoft's Antitrust Concessions Are 'pointless'
News The information [provided in the royalty-free licence] available is incomplete, but Windows clients expect everything to be around for things to work. But information on how to manage file privileges is not included under the royalty-free licence...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
