Licensing model for Microsoft sospiro s

Licensing model for Microsoft sospiro s One of my biggest, most important responsibilities in my daily work is to ensure that we have purchased all the licenses we need. It 's my job to ensure that we are 100% legal all the time - meeting one of our corporate objectives of being a completely ethical. Most of the companies is very easy for me and my staff. If I want the license for Norton Antivirus, all you need to do is count the number of machines in which the product must be installed, write an order form and call the seller to order this product. It works the same with Conversion Plus, Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, WinZip, and none of the hundreds of other products that we need to keep our company in business. One would think that Microsoft makes it easy for people like me to give them money. I know that if I were in their shoes, this is what I do. I have to take a minute to explain that I love Microsoft products. Windows 2000 (server and professional) are very solid and well thought of operating systems, and the suite of Office 2000 is by far the best in the industry. Inteet Explorer is far superior to Netscape and has been for several years, Visio 2000 and is one of the most versatile tools available flowcharting. Unfortunately, the purchase and licensing of Microsoft products is not nearly as pleasant to use their office suite. My God, that make it difficult for the purchase of licenses that I have often seen (especially recently) to move the entire company and WordPerfect Unix only to simplify my life. Well, consider the products of Office. In a healthy world, to do so in three ways: - You can buy anything (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.) - You can buy the basic kit and then purchase additional licenses of the pieces necessary. For example, spending $ 75 on the base, then add $ 40 for Word and, perhaps, $ 10 for PowerPoint, so do not buy access. This could be done with a license key. - Each purchase of each piece separately. Of course, Microsoft did not choose any of these methods. What you tend to a series of "suite", a combination of each product. For example, if you only need Word and Excel, you can buy Office Standard. If, on the other hand, you also need access, you need to buy Office Premium. To make things even worse, as the number of each product you want to buy, you can use different levels of reduction. Just pull a hair from frustration. But wait, it's even worse, with operating systems. You want Windows 2000 server, you must purchase a license for the server, a license for each workstation (Windows 2000 Professional) and a client access license (CAL) for each job that needs to access a server . And, of course, depending on the number of each purchase you receive another discount scale. Oh, we're not finished yet. You also have the choice of back office, which contains a large number of products sold by Microsoft. It may (or may not) be cheaper to get a license back, for example, a change of license, a license for SQL server and a Windows 2000 license. Secondly, if you remember back purchase or separation of the products in the server in order to buy back a CAL or CAL for each product. And, of course, every product has its own scale of reduction depending on how many you buy. Now, with the upcoming release of Windows XP and the release of Office XP, you are, believe it or not, even more confusion. Take a deep breath and see if you can follow that. We bought about 500 copies of Office 95, which we have updated Office 97, then upgraded to Office 2000. We have carefully examined Office XP, and quickly decided to not want to install on any of our systems. We are pleased to Office 2000. However, you may want to move to the next version of Office or even after that one (Microsoft seems to publish a new version every two years). In the past, you only pay an upgrade fee to go from where we were in the new version. No more. Now we have to buy what is essentially the expansion of insurance by a period (it was September, but this seems to have been moved to February). We also have to pay for the upgrade to Office XP at the same time. You can do this, we will pay the winds of over 200% more if you decide to upgrade at some point in the future. Well, Microsoft is asking us to pay now for a product that can be or do in the future. Personally, I think that they know that Office XP is no longer a product that people want - in fact I do not know the system operator that is everywhere, even in the update to the new version. Why not? The user interface is very different (requiring retraining), the performance is low (needs more work equipment) and benefits to the user are totally absent. It gets worse. We decided to go ahead and get the update of insurance and update our products on paper. However, we do not want to install Office XP on a machine at any time. So, we simply want to buy to keep our rights to the updates in the future. We are permitted to install previous versions, as we want under the license just to buy licenses until the new version to cover everything. So we went for the purchase of Microsoft Office XP Professional, and then we are in an interesting position. We first purchased the Professional Edition because we wanted Editor. Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to remove Publisher Microsoft Office XP Professional (in fact, have also removed Frontpage - no great loss, since Frontpage XP is not an improvement compared to 2000). This introduces a lot of confusion on the image. After a long study of telephone and hours of discussions with Microsoft, we find that you can install Office 2000 Professional with Publisher for any professional licenses for Office XP we purchased. However, if you upgrade to Office XP Professional, then we would need to buy another publisher license per machine. It would be much easier if we could buy only 500 licenses for Word, Excel and Publisher 500 to 500. We will be happy to buy a maintenance contract for the entire mix. We do not need to access or PowerPoint, but because of how it is structured to Microsoft, we all have to buy licenses for them. Sigh. Now I need to know how to upgrade my license and Windows NT and Windows 2000 machines. Just make me look in the mirror to see if I have more gray hairs.