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.

As Microsoft ends volume-based discounts for certain services, health systems need to be prepared to optimize their licenses before it’s time for their next agreement renewal.

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 ...

In a conference call on Wednesday, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant kicked off the effort by announcing royalty-bearing licensing programs for its Windows FAT file system and ClearType ...

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 ...

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 ...

After stepping up its own patent push, Microsoft is now trying to get its hands on other companies' intellectual property. Doing so will give the company more freedom to develop software in new areas ...