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Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees
hypnosec writes "Microsoft is trying to make up for below expected earnings following Windows 8's and Surface RT's lack luster adoption rates by increasing the prices of its products between 8 and 400 per cent. Trying to make more out of its enterprise customers who are tied under its Software Assurance payment model, Microsoft has increased user CALs pricing 15 per cent; SharePoint 2013 pricing by 38 per cent; Lync Server 2013 pricing by 400 per cent; and Project 2013 Server CAL by 21 per cent."
Actually, given the way things are going, I'm quite content with him staying.
These idiots who didn't see it coming from miles away deserve to be squeezed by these assholes.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
95% of day-to-day computing for Windows is either playing freecell or masturbating under the desk... Linux users can do both just as well so the op is just full of shit :)
Microsoft is still a big employer, they keep programmers employed,
Never has the broken Windows fallacy been more apt or more fallacious...
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
One license to hold them, and in the darkness bind them!
I could say the same thing but with better context. In my case the Nexus 7 is used to level the table so the iPad doesn't slide off onto the floor.
See if those posts were about Windows Vista I could see the problem but Windows 7 is actually a really good OS. But have you tried Windows 8 yet? It's even faster than Windows 7 and has tons of features including our... I mean their new Metro interface. If you leave me your address I will send you a flyer or maybe a pamphlet about it.
truly, with asp and access microsoft controls the world in its claws, now that we've been magically transported back to 1999.
Lotus Notes?