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Other changes include allowing cloud solution providers (CSPs) to sell customers either one- or three-year subscriptions “for many products including Windows Server, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), and SQL Server.” More monthly billing options will also be made available for one-year offers. Microsoft said training sessions for customers and partners will commence in coming weeks. The new licenses become available on October 1. Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions.

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UK's Ministry of Defence awards Boxxe multimillion Microsoft license deal.AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's softened cloud licensing regime is a sham.Perhaps readers might care to remember this the next time Microsoft talks up its ethics? Three and a bit months later, the US mega-corp is spinning the introduction of these promised licenses as generosity towards its partners, with a nod to its peace offering with European cloud providers.ĭezen’s announcement briefly references that truce, and adds her observation that “we welcome ongoing feedback from cloud providers, customers, and other stakeholders as these changes are implemented.” And Microsoft's corporate blog spins the licenses as a responsible change that helps smaller players thrive, without specifically mentioning the legal action.

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The Redmond giant made concessions to end those lawsuits, with Microsoft president Brad Smith promising, “we will make it easier than ever to license Windows Server for virtual environments and the cloud by relaxing licensing rules that reflected legacy software licensing practices, where licenses are tied to physical hardware,” in a May 18 post. That reason is the legal action brought by European clouds who felt that Microsoft’s software licensing programs represented unfair competition and left them at a disadvantage.

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Windows 10 and 11 have also been given a similar update, with holders of a Microsoft 365 F3, E3, or E5 license able to run the operating systems “on their own servers or on outsourcers’ servers … regardless of whether the user’s primary device has a Qualifying Operating System (QOS) - eg, Windows 11 Pro - and without the need for any additional licenses.” We're also told the new rules otherwise apply worldwide. Instead the target is clouds run by Microsoft’s partner community.

But not just any cloud – the new license does not apply to Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. Microsoft’s aim with this change is to get users migrating Windows Server into the cloud. “With the virtual core licensing option, customers can elect to license Windows Server by the number of virtual cores they are using in virtual machines, making Windows Server easier to license when virtualizing or outsourcing.”Ĭustomers can elect to license Windows Server by the number of virtual cores they are using in virtual machines

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