180 Million Vista Licenses Mean What?
Microsoft shipped about 40 million Vista licenses in the second quarter, or 180 million since the operating system's launch. But how many Vista licenses were on new PCs? Not nearly enough.
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12.8.2008 100 million Vista licenses sold!
Whether you love him or hate him, you won't want to miss his last CES Keynote, especially with announcements like Microsoft having sold 100 million licences of its latest OS.
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Vista Closes in on 150 Million Sold Licenses
With the wind of adoption blowing hard in the sales of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the latest Windows client from Microsoft is closing in on the 150 million sold licenses mark.
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2.4.2008 Microsoft Proves Vista Is Not a Failure with 180 Million Licenses Sold
Windows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure.
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23.7.2008 Windows Vista Ultimate Could Cost $450
We have absolutely no way of confirming the information ourselves, but according to iTWire, we can expect to really pay out the nose for the most ultimate version of Windows ever conceived, Windows Vista Ultimate.
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30.5.2006 Cost of Vista Business License Offset by Savings, Says Microsoft
For a great many large businesses, "the move to the next Windows" has been an ongoing, daily affair for at least well over a decade. And up until recently, the reasons why this migration tends to proceed so slowly have been, to Microsoft, a complete mystery.
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15.6.2007 Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isnt the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers whove had a chance to dabble with early versions of that technology.
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3.10.2006 About Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0
Computer professionals come across the word "Software piracy". It is related to copying, installing and making use of the software without legally purchasing the software.
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27.12.2006 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.
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9.11.2007 Vista SP1 Volume Activation 2.0 Resources Available
The introduction of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista marked the evolution of various aspects of the Windows client with some reverberating all the way to Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1.
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14.7.2008 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.
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15.7.2008 Windows Vista available on Microsoft Volume Licensing Site!
SA - Software Assurance. No ultimate edition yet!
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15.11.2006 Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Technical Guidance
Technical documentation focusing on planning, deployment and operational guidance.
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6.12.2006 Microsoft Trims Source Code Licenses
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it was reducing the number of Shared Source licenses it offered from more than 10 to just three. The new licenses will serve as templates for product groups within Microsoft to release source code and connect with developers.
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Dealer of forged Microsoft licenses goes to jail
A German court has sentenced a software dealer to nearly three years in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses.
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27.1.2007 How much will Windows 7E really cost?
During the past week, Windows 7E pricing got a lot of buzz as sites got hold of Microsofts pricing details.
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5.7.2009 Microsoft Warns Games Could Cost More
After Electronic Arts representative Keith Ramsdale warned that a new rating system might lead to delays for game launches in the United Kingdom, it's Microsofts turn to rally against the intention of the British government to introduce a reform when it comes to rating videogames.
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1.7.2008 The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built
The buzz around the XO Laptop, aka the One Laptop Per Child groups $100 laptop is growing, with an innovative donation program coming in time for the holidays.
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8.10.2007 Confickers estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion
In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion.
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24.4.2009 The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft cant refuse
As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner.
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1.4.2008 Microsoft launches new low-cost PC effort in India
Microsoft has launched another low-cost PC effort in India, this time partnering with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices in an effort to get more computers into the hands of students.
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28.6.2007 Windows 7 Volume License and Trial Availability
Last month we made Windows 7 available to customers with Software Assurance and to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Today I am happy to announce two more ways for businesses to get Windows 7 for their deployment and evaluation.
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3.9.2009 Windows 7 coming to Volume Licensing starting September
Microsoft announced that businesses with Volume Licenses will be able to receive Windows 7 starting September 1.
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14.7.2009 Microsoft issues warning to Volume License customers over Windows Genuine Advantage fail
Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around.
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5.10.2006 Could Not Find Valid System Volume Error When Installing Windows Server 2008 R2
When installing Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with or without Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server 2008 or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, and HPC Server 2008 or HPC Server 2008 R2, the Windows Server installation failed with The computer could not find a valid system volume error message.
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17.8.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Volume License Product Key (VLK) Requires KMS or MAK for Activation
Volume licensing customers for Microsoft Office 2010 suites and applications who install volume editions of Office client software will require activation, even with a volume license key (VLK).
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26.8.2009 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008Dell Software Promo Rankles Microsoft Partners
Dell is quietly selling
Microsoft Open License
software at cost as part of a
three-week promotion that runs
until the end of July, CMP
Channel has learned.
In an email viewed by CMP
Channel, Dell approaches
customers directly and extends
the offer to products such as
SQL, Exchange, Office 2007,
Windows Vista, Windows Server
Standard, Small Business
Server, Client Access
Licenses, Project, and
SharePoint.
However,
Microsoft isn't aware of any
Dell promotions that offer
Open License software at cost,
according to a company
spokesperson.
Dell
did not return emails and
phone calls seeking comment.
Customers typically
buy licenses for Microsoft
software through a volume
license agreement, which can
be an Open License, Select
Agreement, or Enterprise
Agreement. While partners can
buy Open License agreements
from distributors and sell
them to customers, customers
can only buy Select and
Enterprise Agreements only
directly from Microsoft's
large account resellers
(LARs), one of which is Dell. ..
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26.07.2007Microsoft Volume Licensing Programs Comparison Chart
Microsoft Volume Licensing offers customized programs that help organizations purchase software licenses. The Volume Licensing Programs Comparison
Chart allows you to quickly compare the benefits and requirements of each program so you can find the one best suited to your organization.
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26.08.2008Microsoft: 88 Million Copies of Vista Shipped
Despite frequent reports of Windows Vista being a failure, Microsoft Corporation has now shipped 88 million copies of its latest operating system,
almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch. CFO Chris Liddell credited strong sales in emerging markets, due in
part to anti-piracy and legalization programs there. Microsoft had previously said that it had shipped 20 million copies of Vista in its first month,
40 million copies of Vista in the first 100 days, and 60 million in late July.
Three-quarters of the copies sold of Vista were Home Premium
editions. The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by consumers and small businesses, as well as packaged copies of Vista sold
in stores or online. It does exclude the tens of millions of Windows corporate volume licenses. There, many enterprises continue to hold off on
deploying Vista, acknowledged CFO Chris Liddell, though he expects them to start deploying it when Vista Service Pack 1 arrives in the first quarter
of next year. Nevertheless, revenue from companies renewing their volume licenses for Windows, which gives them the right to upgrade to Vista, was up
27%.
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26.10.2007Vista sales hit 88 million, up 47% since July
Microsoft Tuesday said sales of Vista have hit 88 million and the company highlighted a number of customer migrations it says signify that users are
gearing up to switch to the year-old OS despite recent surveys that say many are taking a cautious approach.
Company officials
say the ebb and flow of new contracts and expiring contracts means the overall number of volume licensing copies of Vista doesnt change dramatically
from quarter to quarter.
In addition to the 88 million copies of Vista sold, Microsoft said 42 million PCs now have Vista
licenses via volume licensing contracts signed by corporate users. Microsoft used the same 42 million number back in July when it discussed Vista
uptake at its annual meeting for financial analysts.
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21.11.2007If Not Vista Enterprise, Then What?
Microsoft's Vista Enterprise licensing changes mean some businesses will adopt something else. Could it be Linux? The answer is surprising. Microsoft
made radical changes to Windows licensing with Vista. Businesses could buy earlier versions on new PCs or through volume licensing. The majority of
businesses choose to buy through OEMs, which accounts for more than 80 percent of Windows client revenue.
With Vista, the Enterprise
version can only be purchased through volume licensing and Software Assurance, which adds the price plus X to the software's cost. The potential cost
increase is significant. On top of the license cost, "You'll pay at least $90 for SA on Vista for three years, plus you have to upgrade Vista
Business on new machines to Enterprise edition, which takes extra time and money," said Paul DeGroot, lead desktop strategies analyst for Directions
on Microsoft.
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22.08.2007About those 100 million Vista licenses
Ed Bott: My colleague Mary Jo Foley
reported earlier today on Microsofts
claim that it has sold 100 million retail copies of Windows Vista. During Bill Gates keynote address last night I
heard him say, Im pleased to
say that weve got over 100 million people using Vista now.
Thats a stretch.
I tracked down a Microsoft
spokesperson today who was just as surprised as I was to hear that sentence coming from the keynote stage. The spokesperson confirmed for me that
those 100 million copies represent licenses, not confirmed users. And the total includes copies sold through all channels, including those
preinstalled on OEM computers, copies sold as retail upgrades or full packaged product (FPP), and volume licenses sold to corporate customers.
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08.01.2008Low Cost Laptops : Microsoft Paints Itself Into A Corner
As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom Processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software
company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30, yet most of these low-cost laptops won't be powerful enough to run Vista
when they arrive later this year.
Windows Vista isn't a viable option in this product segment! It's too expensive and does not work
on the stripped-down hardware configurations required to keep prices low. That leaves Microsoft executives with a choice: Do they extend the
availability of Windows XP for low-cost laptops, or possibly concede this nascent market to Linux?
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01.04.2008Microsoft Trims Source Code
Licenses
Microsoft announced on
Wednesday that it was reducing
the number of Shared Source
licenses it offered from more
than 10 to just three. The new
licenses will serve as
templates for product groups
within Microsoft to release
source code and connect with
developers...
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20.10.2005Explanation for Windows 7 'clear choices' for SKUs murkier than ever
There will be a client version of Windows 7 geared for everyday consumers, and another client version for businesses other than those that would
normally purchase volume licenses. The reasons why are growing fewer in number...
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04.02.2009Microsoft says it won't submit restrictive licenses for open-source approval
Microsoft Corp. clarified its
plans to seek open-source
certification for its
shared-source licenses on
Wednesday, saying it will
submit only the two licenses
that allow source code to be
used on any platform for
approval.
Microsoft announced last
week that it would offer its
shared-source licenses, which
it uses to release source code
for free use, to the Open
Source Initiative (OSI) for
potential ratification as a
legitimate method for
open-source developers to
share their work.
However, OSI
president Michael Tiemann said
in an interview published
Monday that not all of
Microsoft's five licenses
appeared to pass the OSI's
muster.
In particular, several
"limited" versions of the
licenses required that code or
applications run only on
Windows PCs. That, Tiemann
said, contravened one of the
OSI's fundamental tenets:
that the licenses not restrict
users' ability to run the
code in any way...
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02.08.2007Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
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28.03.2007Microsoft: Volume licensees to get fewer CDs, shorter contracts
Microsoft is making a number of tweaks to its volume-licensing policies and procedures in the name of cutting complexity and reducing environmental
waste.
The changes affect those licensing Microsoft products under Enterprise Agreements, Select licenses and Open License
Agreements and will take affect over the course of the first half of Microsofts fiscal 2008 (which kicked off on July 1).
Microsoft is reducing the quantity of CDs it ships to its volume licensees by shipping to them only the most widely used software on discs. The
rest of its software will go out over electronic download from the
Microsoft
volume-licensing services Web site. The new policy will create less waste, which is good for the environment, according to a statement from a
company spokesman.
Microsoft also has reduced the length of its volume-license contracts between 10 percent and 50 percent,
depending on the program, officials said. The company has removed all signature blocks from its volume-license forms. Instead, licensees will get a
new signature form that requires only a single signature event with the customer.
Microsoft also is making price information
about products easier to find in its contracts by reducing the number of different price points and SKUs in its volume-license programs.
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06.09.2007Vista Pushes Volume Licensing
During Microsoft's annual
financial analysts conference
today, the company's chief
operating officer boasted
about increases in Windows
volume licensing.
It's the "best rate
we've seen in many, many
years," Kevin Turner said of
annuity licensing contracts.
He acknowledged that Windows
Vista Enterprise and MDOP
(Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack) were major
drivers. Both products can
only be purchased by way of
volume licensing contract. By
contrast, Windows XP
Professional and supporting
tools could be purchased
without a volume licensing
contract.
Turner said that about 42
millions PCs are covered by
volume licensing. Among
midsize businesses and
enterprise, Windows annuity
contract penetration is 19
percent, he said.
"I think it moved a point
of two." Turner said about
Windows volume licensing
increases.
Historically, about 80
percent of Windows client
revenue comes from OEMs.
Microsoft wants to shiftsome
could say forcecustomers to
volume licensing, which would
further smooth out
Microsoft's balance sheet.
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27.07.2007Microsoft Not So 'Open' After All?
The head of the open-source
group that will decide whether
to certify Microsoft Corp.'s
"shared source" software
licenses as open-source
licenses said that more than
half of Redmond's licenses
appear to automatically fail
the group's rules.
Michael Tiemann,
president of the non-profit
Open Source Initiative, said
that provisions in three out
of five of Microsoft's
shared-source licenses that
restrict source code to
running only on the Windows
operating system would
contravene a fundamental tenet
of open-source licenses as
laid out by the OSI. By those
rules, code must be free for
anyone to view, use, modify as
they see fit.
"I am certain that if
they say Windows-only
machines, that would not fly
because that would restrict
the field of use," said
Tiemann in an interview late
Friday...
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31.07.2007Can Microsoft Truly Issue 'Open Source' Licenses?
Yesterday, publisher Tim
O'Reilly broke the news that
at his company's own open
source convention in Portland,
Oregon, Microsoft General
Manager of Platform Strategy
Bill Hilf is planning to
submit its existing Shared
Source Licenses to the Open
Source Initiative, for
certification as true
"Open Source
Licenses."..
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28.07.2007Office 2007: 120 Million Licenses Shipped
Vista may claim 180 million licenses shipped, but Office 2007 probably has more deployments.
Stephen Elop, president of
Microsoft's Business division, revealed the sales figures during the company's annual Financial Analysts Meeting today. There have been "120
million licenses sold since the launch of Office 2007," he asserted.
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25.07.2008Microsoft: No Near-Term Plans
to Seek Open-Source Licensing
Approval
While Microsoft Corp.
has no current plan to apply
for Open Source Initiative
approval of the new licenses
that will govern its Shared
Source projects going forward,
the Redmond, Wash., software
maker has not ruled this out
as a possibility going
forward.
A
s eWEEK first reported,
Microsoft has cut the number
of licenses it will use for
its Shared Source Initiative
going forward from more than
10 to just three template, or
core, licenses.
Several prominent
Webloggers on Wednesday jumped
the gun with expectations that
the OSI would designate the
new licenses as
OSD-compliant.
"Th
e big news today at EuroOSCON
is the fact that Microsoft has
posted new source licenses,
and a couple of them might
actually be OSD
[open-source-definition]-compl
iant!!" blogged Danese
Cooper, Intel's
self-professed "open-source
diva" on her personal Web
site. ..
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21.10.2005Microsoft says 140M Vista licenses sold
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it has sold 140 million licenses of Windows Vista.
Colleen Healy, general manager of
investor relations, made the statement during a conference call with Wall Street analysts after Microsoft posted its third-quarter earnings. The
company pointed to strong PC sales for helping the much-maligned operating system achieve that number.
However, revenue from
Microsoft's client division, which overwhelmingly comes from sales of Windows Vista or XP licenses, was down 24% from last year's third quarter to
$4.03 billion. Chris Liddell, Microsoft's chief financial officer, attributed the decrease to strong sales a year ago immediately after Vista's
launch, plus increased software piracy in developing countries and other reasons.
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25.04.2008Vista SP1 to replace 'Reduced Functionality' with nagware
A service originally designed to compel unpaid Vista users to obtain genuine licenses is apparently being scrapped in Service Pack 1, to be replaced
with a more "in-your-face" approach...
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04.12.2007Volume License Key Changes,
End to VLK Piracy?
"Corporate Edition" versions
of Windows have been the
blessing of both IT workers
and casual pirates since the
days of Windows 95, when the
operating system first started
asking for a license key on
installation.
Large firms and OEMs who did
not want to go through the
hassle of typing in a CD key
for every install received
Volume License Keys (VLKs)
that could be used on as many
installs as necessary.
Microsoft relied on the honor
system to ensure that
companies did not abuse this
privilege, but it looks as if
with Vista this system may be
ending:
"We
are making changes to the
process to Vista and a new
approach to VLK licensing,"
Mike Sievert, corporate vice
president of Windows client
marketing for Microsoft told
CRN during a recent interview.
"We're training our
enterprise customers and
we'll do some key management
for customers that's more
automated and makes reporting
easier."
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