Navigating Microsoft’s complex rules and programs for software licensing has been notoriously difficult for businesses — a pain point not lost on the company, which for years has said it is trying to ...

Matt Baxter-Reyonolds: I think another way to look at this argument is that there's a presumption that is makes "more sense" to pay for software on a subscription basis as opposed to buying or leasing ...

Changes include eliminating the need for another license to virtualize Windows 10 and 11 on customer servers and outsourcers’ servers, removing the ability to outsource certain licenses on major cloud ...

Earlier this month, when Microsoft executive Therese Connor told a gathering of partners that Microsoft's software licensing was "dizzying," she was talking about the explosion of product numbers, or ...

Microsoft is taking another step toward subscription licensing, this time with Windows. The company is offering its enterprise users a new per-user, rather than per-device, licensing option for ...

The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) concept is a simple one, but Windows shops may find the licensing somewhat perplexing. One complicating element in terms of licensing is the architecture used to ...

Microsoft is offering a single Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) to simplify its volume licensing agreements. What do the changes mean for software asset management? It has introduced a ...

Microsoft Office comes in several different versions, including one for home and another designed mainly for businesses. To cater to the different audiences, Microsoft offers various licensing options ...

After stepping up its own patent push, Microsoft is now trying to get its hands on other companies' intellectual property. Doing so will give the company more freedom to develop software in new areas ...

The old program: Previously, companies bought software licenses for each desktop and then picked up upgrades on an as-needed basis. Software upgrades cost about 59 percent to 72 percent of the ...