Microsoft Won't Charge More for Multicore Licenses

esimp writes "According to technewsworld: 'As servers with dual-core processors come closer to hitting the market, Microsoft announced today it will not base its per-processor software licensing charges on the number of cores in a chip, sticking to the traditional price per processor, regardless of its number of cores." Update: 10/20 00:37 GMT by T : One of the identical links to TechNewsWorld's story has now been deleted.

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Wow

[twitter]

Now if only more than one person could use a copy of Word at the same time. It's so underwhelming.

Perhaps they could reimburse everyone for all the time spent weeding out worms and viruses. Nah, that would make a "profit center" into a money loser as well as customer loser.

already covered in my nerdy blog

[wikinerd]

http://nsk.wikinerds.org/blog/index.php?p=74

Re:Both links are the same!

[FuzzzyLogik]

I am 1 for 1... being a subscriber i seen a story that was a duplicate and emailed immediately with a link to the first story and it was removed about 2 or 3 minutes after i sent it.

Re:Hurray for them!

[jack_csk]

Hi Dick.