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Microsoft Adopts Virtual Licenses

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-i-virtually-paid-for-it dept.

* * 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.

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  1. challenge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I challenge slashdot to go one month without any mention of Microsoft, with no Microsoft ads, to prove they are independent and not bought and paid for lackeys of the Beast of Redmond.

  2. just an observation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    this article is virtually gay

  3. Virtual processors? 64bit = 2 32bit? by Khyber · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, if I have a 64 bit system, which I can emulate (virtual) two 32 bit processors within, does that mean I'm going to have to pay for two licenses?? What next? Audio licensing per audio channel?

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  4. Threads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    next they will start licensing based on the number of threads you are running. Task manager says I'm running 517 right now.

  5. Old News, move along... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  6. Re:The way this works for windows... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First off I am not an anonymous coward!

    Everybody knows I am a coward!

    I just wanted to say that someone has to pay for all the hard work Microsoft has put into patching all their programmes for all those years whilst making no money developing Longhorn or whatever they are not allowed to call it these days or are they but I was put off by being called anonymous!

  7. John Holmes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Listening to Microsoft talk about licensing is like listening to John Holmes talk about his dick.