is aware of its volume-licensing is going to need an overhaul if and when its prospects and partners actually get started heading gung-ho for for that cloud. the company’s fiscal 2011 (which runs from July 1, 2010,
microsoft office Standard 2007, to June 30, 2011), Microsoft will be doing the ground work for an overhaul of its volume-licensing infrastructure and policies. But don’t expect any actual new programs during that period, according to Joe Matz, the Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Licensing and Pricing. spoke at a session at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference on July 13 about the company’s Large Account Reseller (LAR) program. lot is changing in quantity licensing,” Matz told the overflow crowd at yesterday’s session. “We’re going big with online services in volume licensing. We want to adapt quantity licensing for online.” is working on its back-end operations, systems and policies to enable this shift,
buy microsoft office 2010 Standard, he said. In addition to making licenses simpler and easier to manage, Microsoft is aware of it also needs to enable greater licensing flexibility, he said. said his team’s second biggest priority in this fiscal year is to continue to modernize licensing. is always heading to be complex,” Matz said, “but it needs to be simpler, more manageable,
office 2010 pro 64bit key, scalable and agile.” team is working on ways to allow partners and buyers to attach new cloud technologies to existing licenses, rather than requiring potential customers to buy and manage new licenses every time they add a new technology to their existing Microsoft mix,
windows 7 pro x86, he said. Microsoft also needs to make it easier for buyers to transition from on-premises software to services on the licensing front. said to expect Microsoft to do more to integrate Microsoft financing with licensing in the coming year. Matz said more than 7,000 Microsoft consumers in 15 countries spend billions per year with Microsoft to finance their technology purchases. prices last year had an impact on us,” he admitted. “But we now have our model back online and getting back to growth in this space is a priority.” didn’t mention the meltdown with Microsoft’s Quantity Licensing Service Center (VLSC) earlier this year. Microsoft ended up having to roll out a “version 3.5″ of the site, incorporating new fixes and updates, because many prospects and partners were unable for months to access their quantity software licenses and products. addition to discussing volume-licensing in the LAR session, Microsoft officials also shared a few interesting statistics about the company’s partner hierarchy. has 22,000 “major accounts,” 80 percent of which are covered by Enterprise Agreement (EA) licenses with the business. The business has another 92,000 “corporate accounts” that it targets,
windows 7 keygen, only 19 percent of which are currently covered by an EA. (This is the group of clients that are still running lots of Windows XP, older versions of Office and no SQL Server, corporation execs acknowledged.) There are 5.3 million small/midsize business (SMB) Microsoft accounts consumers out there, as well. (I didn’t catch how many the business is claiming are Microsoft accounts.) all categories, Microsoft still is seeing a lot of CIOs fear the unknown with the cloud, officials acknowledged, meaning there will still be “years ahead” of selling on-premises software for Microsoft’s partners.