Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday June 6, 2004 @10:33AM from the adapt-or-die-die-die dept.

prostoalex writes "Microsoft is introducing significant changes into its licensing program, faced with competition from Linux, as Reuters article suggests. First, Microsoft starts giving away free server licenses to its Software Assurance Program customers, if the PC is not actually used in production and is not present on the network. Such licensing would be convenient for disaster recoveries, where it's important to replace a failed server as soon as possible without calling Microsoft support or licensing partner. Support lifecycle is also extended to 10 years for a variety of products, including Windows 2000, Windows XP and SQL Server 2000."

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Re:Wow, this is soo insightful. by Mind+Booster+Noori · 2004-06-06 14:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

When was it? 2 hours ago?
Don't crap on me...

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Re:Wow, this is soo insightful. by Mind+Booster+Noori · 2004-06-06 15:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Congratulations: you're the 1st guy I hear saying that winXP doesn't crash on him for more then 6 months. Wow: how did you managed it? Didn't install absolutelly nothing on the machine nor booted to it?
About the Mandrake box, Linux doesn't do miracles when we're talking about damaged hardware.

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