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Microsoft Adopts Virtual Licenses
* * Beatles-Beatles is one of many to let us know that Microsoft has changed how they handle licensing for Windows Server and related products with regards to virtual machine environments. The new regiment will allow per-processor licensing to be handled based on the number of virtual processors rather than the number of physical processors in the computer.
I, and others smarter than I, have ragged about this for a long time now. Microsoft is about money. Not innovation. Not imagination. Not kickass products. Money. No matter what the astroturf apologists say, it's about money. Their licensing model is whatever generates the most money. It will always be that going forward.
I just saw an article on, cnn.com I think, titled something like 'Time for Microsoft to grow up.' Grow up? They are already old. It's to their credit they're trying to take care of their investors, but they're doing it by adopting a business plan that can only doom them. Grow up, indeed. If they were any older their foundries would have _real_ bessemer converters.