Microsoft licensing is a bit of a mystery to those who are not directly involved in procurement. But it’s worth understanding the basics when exploring how virtualization and cloud technologies could ...

Directions on Microsoft licensing expert Rob Horwitz says the webinar covers information that falls under the heading “I wish someone had told me this when I got started.” According to Horwitz, the ...

A new Windows Server 2012 licensing report was released this month by Directions on Microsoft for those considering Microsoft's newest server technology. The report by the Kirkland, Wash.-based ...

MSSQL licensing is either/or (users or cores). It doesn't matter how many 'DB' users there are; what matters is the number of actual users (i.e. heads with appendages) accessing it by whatever ...

Microsoft has quietly confirmed it will be closing down its ‘Get Licensing Ready’ page in the New Year, giving users until just the end of the year to finish their training modules.

Microsoft officials made the licensing changes public as part of the company's introduction of a preview of Azure Dedicated Host, its new, single-tenant cloud option.

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 ...

Microsoft knows its volume-licensing is going to need an overhaul if and when its customers and partners really start going gung-ho for for the cloud. In the company's fiscal 2011 (which runs from ...

“There’s this evolution of Microsoft programs and they rarely kill a licensing program — so you’ll have a licensing program that is 15 years old that is still there,” he said.

Microsoft licensing is a bit of a mystery to those who are not directly involved in procurement. But it’s worth understanding the basics when exploring how virtualization and cloud technologies could ...