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| Time: 14:06 EST/19:06 GMT | News Source: Microsoft Watch | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Can you improve your odds when hammering out licensing contracts with Redmond? One 'licensing geek' says yes. How you can negotiate better software licensing deals with Microsoft — even if your company recently signed a new contract with the Redmond software kingpin? The question is especially pertinent now, with many users' three-year-old Software Assurance (SA) licensing deals set to expire on June 30. |
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| #1 By 1643 (64.73.227.129) at Thursday, June 24, 2004 02:46:05 PM |
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"That SA is not beneficial to companies"
Your right, all those companies signed up for it for no reason. </sarcasm> "Their licensing models are too restrictive, too pricey, and too limiting to companies' plans." Actually, it's very flexible. You don't know what your talking about. |
| #2 By 6859 (206.156.242.39) at Thursday, June 24, 2004 04:08:50 PM |
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Has anyone ever thought about lying to MS about this? I mean, let's say I run a company, we just tell MS that we don't use their servers but would like to, if the price it right.
They might cut us a deal just to get our allegiance. Meanwhile we keep them fromseeing the NT server in the back room. ;) Might be a valid tactic. Might not. Just an idea. |
| #3 By 1643 (204.210.30.241) at Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:08:32 PM |
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Jesus uses BEOS, God uses Windows XP, and the holy spirit use linux cause it thinks the other two are plotting against it.
humor |
| #4 By 1643 (204.210.30.241) at Friday, June 25, 2004 04:33:16 AM |
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#22 That's a little FUDdy...MS has the best track record for accessibility of any SW company I know. Whole groups are thrown at it and MS research spends quite a lot of time on this area.
Who said LH will need tech support...pessimist :) But I'm sure you can use classic mode remotely. humor |
| #5 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at Friday, June 25, 2004 07:38:30 AM |
| #22 I'm sure it would be no different than today. MS has a decent program (forget the name right now) built into windows that will read text to the user and JAWS is a great program for the blind. |
| #6 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at Friday, June 25, 2004 07:39:31 AM |
| I would've thought that Jesus would have been a Linux user. He also gave away his work for free. |
| #7 By 1643 (64.73.227.129) at Friday, June 25, 2004 02:14:26 PM |
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But he wants your soul...so maybe MSucks can provide some links to Microsoft...lol.
humor |
| #8 By 1643 (64.73.227.129) at Friday, June 25, 2004 02:14:30 PM |
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Double post This post was edited by humor on Friday, June 25, 2004 at 14:15. |
| #9 By 1643 (204.210.30.241) at Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:40:16 AM |
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"France is getting a very good business model, using open source software to reduce IT costs and selling the software and solutions they develop for themselves to neighbouring countries for a fraction of what MS will sell their solutions for, yet the software will be much more customized for Europe's needs. "
There just starting, not close to complete...and your saying there saving money already? "Japan/China/Korea are making an operating system to suit their needs without spending as much as they would need to, and they'll be able to sell that to people/organizations. " There just starting too with no real progress, damn your good at predicting the future. And don't forget japan's 8.6 million "investment" will get you 86 engineers for 1 year with salary/expense...I just don't see the odds. "FUDey? I'm just speaking from experience" Are you blind, cuz MS is the best out ther if your disabled...it has a LOT of accesibilty features...txt to speach, maginifier, etc. "it's hard to make things in Windows automatic unless the application has explicit support for it." No, your experience has served you wrong...i've worked with disabled people on SW deployments. "I've had to rely on VNC a lot and it's hard to administer a Windows server without being on-site." If you can't do it over VNC...what the hell do you mean...what can't you administer? You want windows to change the backup tape for you automatically? humor This post was edited by humor on Saturday, June 26, 2004 at 03:13. |
