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 ...

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.

Organizations with top Microsoft 365 E5 suite licensing get a product called "Power BI Pro." It may seem adequate, because of its product name, but it has limitations.

Organizations purchasing Microsoft 365 subscription licenses can easily face licensing compliance issues, upping their costs. That's the gist of a Thursday online presentation by Directions on ...

The majority of Microsoft's customers won't be signing up for a controversial licensing plan set to go into effect on Thursday, according to analysts' estimates. Signing onto the plan, which would ...

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 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.

“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.