Renewals for Microsoft licensing used to follow a familiar script. Discounts held, tiers stayed put, and enterprise ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.

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 trying to ...

Earlier this month, when Microsoft executive Therese Connor told a gathering of partners that Microsoft's software licensing was "dizzying," she was talking about the explosion of product numbers, or ...

Matt Baxter-Reyonolds: I think another way to look at this argument is that there's a presumption that is makes "more sense" to pay for software on a subscription basis as opposed to buying or leasing ...

The company's lawyers have joined its campaign against open-source software, restricting how developers may use what it terms "viral software" in connection with Microsoft tools. Stephen Shankland ...

TL;DR: A lifetime license for Microsoft Office now only costs $150.

The old program: Previously, companies bought software licenses for each desktop and then picked up upgrades on an as-needed basis. Software upgrades cost about 59 percent to 72 percent of the ...

Microsoft is offering a single Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) to simplify its volume licensing agreements. What do the changes mean for software asset management? It has introduced a ...