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- Two Global Firms Save More Than $500,000 Through Virtualization and Volume Licensing
- Global training and consulting firm, FranklinCovey Co., and global retailer, FranklinCovey Products, took advantage of a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Hyper-V virtualization software to reduce software licensing costs while expanding capabilities. They upgraded to the Enterprise CAL Suite and used Windows Server 2008 Datacenter with Hyper-V to create separate virtual...
- Tags: Volume-license, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- ISV Simplifies Software Management, Saves 40 Percent, With Volume Licensing Agreement
- Ranked among the 2009 Global Services 100 "Top 10 Best Performers," EPAM Systems provides IT and software development services based on Microsoft technologies to customers around the world. To reduce costs while maximizing flexibility and simplifying license management, EPAM signed a Microsoft Volume Licensing Enterprise Subscription Agreement. Under this agreement,...
- Tags: Software, Volume-license, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- 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
- Webcasts
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- Intel e-reader combines Atom processor and accessibility
- Intel announced an innovative e-reader today that wants nothing to do with being a Kindle-killer. This e-reader, in fact, arguably has more educational implications than the current generation of e-readers. Intel's product, demonstrated below, is designed to turn written text into spoken words and can convert either text...
- Tags: E-reader, Processor, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- TextSpeech Pro 3.5.2 (Mac)
- Unleash the power of spoken text with TextSpeech Pro, the most natural-sounding, easy to use text-to-speech software on the market. Utilizing voices of exceptional quality, TextSpeech Pro lets you: - Convert text from any document (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) into natural sounding speech. - Read web...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Speech, Voice, Digital Future, Telecommunications, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 4.1.1 (Windows)
- EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is an excellent partition management freeware. With its help, you can extend system partition, have better disk space management, settle low disk space problem! The most attractive feature is it can resize/move partition without destroying data.This free partition software works perfectly with hardware RAID and...
- Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, Partition, EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- Easeus Partition Master Server Edition 4.1.1 (Windows)
- Magic Partition Software - Easeus released upgraded version Easeus Partition Master Server Edition with new features: adds Windows 7 support. Easeus Partition Master Server Edition is the best value server partition software to optimize disk space usage and provide you with powerful partition and hard disk management to increase the...
- Tags: Chengdu YIWO Tech Development, Hard Drive, Disk, Microsoft Windows, Partition, Easeus Partition Master Server Edition, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU
- Editors' note: This review is part of our holiday 2009 retail desktop and laptop review roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. There's something to be said for simplicity. The Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU might not look like much and its limited supply...
- Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-07
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