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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.
Is today April 1?
...that they would even think they could charge more just because of improvements to underlying silicon architecture. An Athlon 64 3500+ provides performance equivalent to about $10,000 or so Intel 8086 logic chips and the 8086 chip *was* the chip that launched Microsoft. Since MS-DOS 1.0 sold for about $100, maybe we should all be paying $1,000,000 a copy to run MS-DOS 1.0 on the Athlon 64. Windows XP would cost more, of course.
Awwwww, thats mighty nice of them, must getting soft in their old age :P
who should we thank for such favors...
and will they reverse the decision when multicore CPUs become more common?
Seems MS flip flopped a few times on Win XP service pack 2 eing available and enabled for people with pirate copies of that OS. I'm sure other changes can be found especially looking at the changes in licensing MS Office over the years.
...selling you licenses based on the number of CPU sockets you are using! Yes, this is a secret strategy that MS came up with years ago. It's the dreaded 'Proc socket tax'! Everybody now...
NO PROC SOCKET TAXATION WITH LINUXIZATION!
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Ya, why is this news? Do I really care when Microsoft does something non-evil?
It's not Microsoft's fault you can't run an up-to-date AV client. So you want to pirate software and blame them when you get a virus? Why is this about Microsoft and not about you again?
This is about Microsoft's retarded system of charging people money for every dinky thing they do. A multi-core processor machine is next to wasted running M$'s stupid single user software. What's the point of using such a thing for a single person's Word processing? Because of that, M$'s seemingly generous policy of not charging an additional rape fee per processor looks worthless. Oh, sure, someone can say that it would be nice to run "server" with it but that is always the wrong tool for the job.
Oh yeah, Debian does not need an Anti-Virus program, unless it's filtering email for Windoze crippled computers. Running software that others want you to run and share can hardly be called pirating. Things are so much easier when you use software that's not owned by a bunch of assholes like Microsoft. I'm not directly annoyed by virus run computers. My clients are and everyone else has to bear the cost of the spam and other malice their boxes spew.
Keep it coming AC, that's much better stuff than the usual nasty that your Astroturfing buddies like to throw at me.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.