Microsoft Corp. may be trying to make it easier for delinquent corporate customers to "true up" their volume license contracts. But CIOs who have tangled with Microsoft on licensing issues said this latest program does little to tackle the real issue: the difficulty, short of buying Microsoft's most expensive class of license, of staying compliant.
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peacemaker
47 weeks 2 days 12 hours 36 min ago
FTA: "in the past several years,
FTA: "in the past several years, Microsoft has started to target companies with programs such as Software Protection Platform (SPP), which requires corporations to tighten up how they install software and manage volume license keys, and Software Asset Management (SAM) -- a thinly disguised corporate software audit that Microsoft, as part of its contracts with customers, is guaranteed."
Treating your clients like criminals and then saying pay up or else... now that's the way to do business (sarc)
kiba
47 weeks 2 days 12 hours 20 min ago
Great choice for sucide, Microsoft.
Great choice for sucide, Microsoft.