Microsoft Corp. continues to tweak its volume licensing programs to make it easier for business customers to purchase the company’s software in bulk. This week Microsoft said it was reducing the ...

The new cost model takes effect Nov. 1, but experts say Microsoft partners should still have some pricing flexibility as IT ...

Microsoft is starting to roll out a new volume-licensing plan that unifies its myriad existing business licensing agreements into a single new type of contract. Currently, Microsoft offers a variety ...

For years, Microsoft licensing programs have confounded even the tiny group of Earth's residents who've made a career out of studying and explaining them to Microsoft customers. Now Microsoft says ...

Microsoft Corp. is finalizing changes to its enterprise volume licensing contracts that are expected to provide the company with more revenues -- and customers with more "incentives" to upgrade.

Microsoft is trying to simplify its complex volume licensing programs and the customer agreements that fall under them. As part of that initiative, the Redmond, Wash., software maker has slashed the ...

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday bowed to enormous pressure from customers, altering some of the conditions of its controversial new volume licensing plans and again extending the transition period for them ...

"There has never been a better time to negotiate volume licensing deals with Microsoft," said Rob Horwitz, research chair at Directions On Microsoft, the research firm that published the report. "And ...

I've always wondered this ... OEM licensing for Microsoft software is often cheaper than volume licensing. So why do people use volume licensing for Office or Windows ...

Microsoft recently published some new documents describing its emerging Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) licensing plan. The MPSA was very briefly described by Microsoft back in ...

Midsize companies should get ready this month as Microsoft introduces a new purchasing scheme that changes the way it deals with its volume licensing customers. The company says the purpose of the new ...