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- Report: Customers scrutinizing Microsoft license agreements more than ever
- Tough economic times are leading customers to scrutinize their Microsoft licensing agreements more than ever before -- a fact that's leading Microsoft to provide some substantial deals and discounts. That's one of the take-aways from long-time Microsoft watchers at Directions on Microsoft are providing in a new report, due this...
- Tags: Volume-license, License Agreement, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Service Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- New Microsoft program to make volume licenses 'evergreen'
- New Microsoft program to make volume licenses 'evergreen'NowIf we can just get rid of WGA and activation process for stand-alone users, we'll be in business.Microsoft volume licenses 'evergreen'“However as always with Microsoft licensing, the devil is in the details.â€Never were truer words spoken - you can bet the farm...
- Tags: volume-license, New Microsoft program, New Microsoft, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- New Microsoft program to make volume licenses 'evergreen'
- Microsoft took the wraps off a new licensing program -- Select Plus -- which company officials said is aimed at simplifying software and services purchases by large and mid-size businesses. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Software, Volume-license, Customer, Microsoft Corp., Software Assurance, Select, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Microsoft buys virtualization vendor to help with Vista migrations
- Microsoft announced on March 12 it had purchased another virtualization vendor -- one whose technology Microsoft is counting on to help ease Windows Vista migrations. That vendor, Kidaro, makes desktop virtualization software for enterprise users. Microsoft said it plans to combine Kidaro's technology into its suite of...
- Tags: Volume-license, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Virtual PC, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Microsoft: Volume licensees to get fewer CDs, shorter contracts
- Microsoft is making a number of tweaks to its volume-licensing policies and procedures in the name of cutting complexity and reducing environmental waste. The changes affect those licensing Microsoft products under Enterprise Agreements, Select licenses and Open License Agreements and will take affect over the course of...
- Tags: Volume-license, CD, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Manufacturer Saves IT Costs With Integrated Environment and Volume Licensing
- Greek industrial and marine automation systems manufacturer UTECO had a heterogeneous IT infrastructure. UTECO standardized on the Microsoft server product portfolio, acquired with a Microsoft Open Value Volume Licensing agreement. Now the IT staffer saves time using automated software update management, and employees have a secure collaboration solution. UTECO used...
- Tags: Software, Volume-license, Information Technology, Environment, Server, Microsoft Corp., Software Update, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-06-19
- Microsoft's licensing mess
- If you've been selling a product for more than 10 years and you've shipped hundreds of millions of units, you'd think your customers would know what they're buying. For Microsoft, that's not the case.The culprit is the hopelessly confusing, practically Byzantine Windows licensing structure, which consists of a maze of...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- SolutionBase: Changes to Product Activation and Volume Licensing
- Windows XP introduced Windows Product Activation, which helped Microsoft control piracy but became a bane to network administrators who installed and needed to activate Windows XP in large organizations. Windows Vista takes product activation worries to a new level. Here's what you'll face.
- Tags: Volume-license, Product Activation, Brien Posey, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2007-05-03
- How to get sued by Microsoft
- Shopping at SurplusComputers.com is like poking around an especially geeky Goodwill store, Most of the goods are surplus for a reason, but occasionally youll find a particularly useful bit of hardware or software whose market has crested, making it a great bargain. Ive been receiving the companys Deals of the...
- Tags: Microsoft, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Windows XP will be around a lot longer than you think
- Windows XP will be around a lot longer than you thinkTrue ... butFor most people, no XP on systems from Dell, Toshiba, Gateway, and Lenovo means no XP. At that point XP will have gone over the event horizon and start to become a part of history (and people...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows XP, OEM, volume-license, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Confused over WGA? You're not alone
- Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage servers finally noticed that the copy of Windows XP Professional I installed last weekend was using an unauthorized volume license key. That’s good news, because it means I’ll finally be able to finish the detailed report I’m working on that explains exactly how WGA actually works...
- Tags: WGA
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- Microsoft adds disaster aid to volume licensing
- Microsoft adds disaster aid to volume licensingWorthless>Apparently the term "hot spare" doesn't register in Redmond. Once again MSFT misfires. Instead of giving their customers a bonus that's actually worth something, they dumb it down to something that's all show and no go. Hey, at least they're consistent!...
- Tags: Sales tools, Servers, volume-license, cold calling, Microsoft Corp., cold server, disaster recovery, server, software
- Discussion threads 2004-05-19
- TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 Solution Accelerator Debuts (Level 200)
- This webcast introduces Windows Vista Hardware Assessment version 2.0, an automated software tool that helps eliminate the need for IT staff to perform a manual inventory. This newly revamped tool is also now localized in six languages, and it generates inventory reports in just hours rather than days. Using information...
- Tags: Volume-license, Webcast, Microsoft Windows Vista, Hardware, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
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- Sonos touchscreen remote on the way?
- With competition coming from the likes of Cisco/Linksys and Yamaha, Sonos looks to be making a bit of an upgrade to its multi-room audio solution. A new remote has been spotted by UK blog Automated Home, the first from Sonos that is a touchscreen model, instead of using a scroll...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Yamaha Corp., Sonos, CR200, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- GameEx 10.17 (Windows)
- GameEx is a graphical DirectX based front-end for MAME, Zinc, Daphne, PC games, and all command line based game emulators, along with being a good Home Theatre PC solution HTPC. It has support for LCD/VFD displays, the MCE remote control, game pads, full mouse control, wide screen displays, volume control,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Spesoft, GameEx, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- Underwater Clock Bubbles Screensaver 1.2 (Windows)
- Just decorate your Windows desktop with a big colorful clock face and hands over its surface and sink it in a sea bottom. The soothing underwater visual effects and transparent bubbles flowing on the screen wash away the tiredness and stress of a long business day. Every second of our...
- Tags: Screensaver, Bubble, Gelios Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- Eufony Free WMA MP3 Converter 1.02 (Windows)
- Eufony Free WMA MP3 Converter is a powerful audio converter for WMA to MP3 and MP3 to WMA conversion. You probably have cool music or songs in WMA files (e.g. a ton of CDs that you've ripped with Windows Media Player, they are always saved as WMA), but your portable...
- Tags: WMA, Microsoft Windows, MP3, HongLiang Tang, Eufony Free WMA MP3 Converter, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- Eufony Free Audio Player 1.57 (Windows)
- Eufony Free Audio Player is a powerful audio player. It handles a wide variety of formats and allows you to play over 40 audio/video formats including: APE FLAC OGG WMA MP3 WAV (PCM, Creative/ MS/ IMA ADPCM, ALAW, ULAW) Raw PCM AAC M4A eAAC+ AAC+ AU AIF AMR AWB VOC...
- Tags: Audio Player, Microsoft Windows, HongLiang Tang, Eufony Free Audio Player, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- Drive Manager 4.04 (Windows)
- Drive Manager continually monitors the space available for each of your drive letters. You can also open a drive in explorer by double clicking on it. The Floppy disk drive letters A and B are ignored. It automatically refreshes every 10 seconds. This save you having to use the "My...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, Letter, Alex Nolan, Number Column
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- Yamaha YHT-791BL
- Photo gallery:Yamaha YHT-791BLGreat-sounding home theater is becoming increasingly rare, as consumers move toward space-saving solutions like soundbars and tiny home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs. If you still care about sound, have a budget around $1,000, and want the convenience of an all-in-one package, the choice largely comes down to two systems--the Onkyo...
- Tags: Yamaha YHT-791BL, speaker, Regular HTIB, Yamaha Corp., receiver
- Product reviews 2009-07-02
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