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Get Insight into Volume Licensing with a Reference Guide from Microsoft

Microsoft is making it easier, and cheaper for that matter, for business customers and governmental organizations to buy a variety of its software products in bulk. This is possible through Volume Licensing, with the Redmond company selling the software license only, as opposite to a retail box which also contains m...

3 January 2011
03:36 GMT

Download Microsoft Software Assurance Interactive Benefits Chart

The Microsoft Software Assurance Interactive Benefits Chart is an extremely interesting resource that business users will want to at least take a look at, if they ever had questions about the advantages that came with Software Assurance agreements for the Redmond company’s volume license customers. The two-page...

7 May 2010
06:30 GMT

2 PCs Are Enough for Volume Licensing from Microsoft

According to Microsoft, a total of two computers are more than sufficient to qualify a customer for Volume Licensing, Software Assurance and the adjacent benefits. Eric Ligman, Global Partner Experience lead Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group, revealed that, despite the common belief for some that a minimum of five PC...

9 March 2010
09:23 GMT

The Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center Evolves

At the start of this month, Microsoft began kicking up a notch the online resources designed to streamline the management of Microsoft Volume Licensing program agreements and products. Essentially, the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center evolved into a single, integrated portal set up to allow customers to admi...

15 December 2009
03:59 GMT

How Windows 7 Fits into Volume Licensing Programs

Not all Microsoft customers are equal and not all treated in such a manner either. The difference lies in the license that accompanies software from the Redmond company. While end users have to deal with retail software or OEM images, corporate customers access Microsoft software through volume licenses. And there&rs...

27 November 2009
11:41 GMT

Google Won't Build Its Own Phone

Search engine giant Google has been rumored a few times before to plan coming to the market with a handset developed by itself, yet it seems that the company has now stepped up and denied those sayings. Google is not into the phone-making business, according to Andy Rubin, head of Android development.“We'r...

2 November 2009
08:01 GMT

Windows 7 Available on September 1, 2009

As Microsoft is making its way to the release to manufacturing milestone of Windows 7, the company confirmed that the gold build of the operating system would be made available to customers months ahead of October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline.In this regard, on September 1, 2009, business customers will alr...

14 July 2009
11:51 GMT

Microsoft LicenseWise Volume Licensing Resources

Microsoft LicenseWise for Volume Licensing is by no means a new project from the Redmond company. However, with Windows 7 on the horizon, but not just for the next iteration of the Windows client, LicenseWise resources might just be the answer for Microsoft partners to streamline volume licensing solutions to custome...

9 March 2009
06:32 GMT

While Microsoft Cuts Down Costs, It Advises Businesses to Spend More

In the light of pour financial results for the second quarter of 2009, Microsoft has announced a comprehensive set of measures designed to cut down costs. But at the same time, while aiming to reduce the annual operating expense run rate by no less than $1.5 billion as well as slash capital expenditures by $700 milli...

23 January 2009
05:58 GMT

Windows Vista SP1 Volume Licensing

Volume Licensing is just one of the modalities to acquire Microsoft software, but perhaps, as customers are concerned, it is also the most appealing because of the cost savings it implies. In contrast to the retail copies of Windows Vista, the main benefit of the Volume Licenses is that it takes the cost of the packa...

15 July 2008
09:43 GMT

Select Plus, a New Way of Purchasing Vista SP1 at a Discount

Select Plus is a new way for purchasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 at a discount, but the licensing option introduced by Microsoft on July 1, 2008, is not limited to the company's latest Windows client, this because Select Plus also covers applications and server products in addition to client operating system...

1 July 2008
09:23 GMT

Windows Vista Volume Licensing

Retail and original equipment manufacturer licenses of Windows Vista are designed to accompany copies of the operating system that ship especially to home users. But Microsoft also has offerings tailorfitted for the corporate environment. Through Volume Licensing, the Redmond company is offering a suite of programs c...

9 November 2007
09:40 GMT

Microsoft Reconstructs Windows Vista Enterprise Volume Licenses

Microsoft announced the overhauling of Windows Vista Enterprise volume licenses starting with early September. However, the reconstruction of the Redmond company's volume licensing program is by no means limited solely to its latest operating system, but extends to a variety of additional software products. Acco...

8 August 2007
06:43 GMT

Microsoft Claims That Customers Are Not Abandoning the Company

Microsoft claims that all is peachy when it comes to its volume licensing programs, and particularly Enterprise Agreements, despite a report from Forester titled "Economics And Alternatives To Microsoft's Software Assurance" stating otherwise. According to Forester, Microsoft Software Assurance customers, an unp...

30 July 2007
10:27 GMT


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