Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Announcements

In the past, Microsoft has been accused of not accommodating the virtualization needs of their customers. Several changes recently announced have moved Microsoft forward in the virtualization market. These announcements include:

Changes to virtual licensing cost structure
New technology and retail initiatives in conjunction with Citrix
A trade-in offer for dissatisfied VMware customers
Take time to reconsider Microsofts new technology and licensing scheme, which will certainly effect both performance and the bottom line for the better.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• citrix
• vmware-vdi
• desktop-virtualization
• desktops
• microsoft-licensing
• microsoft
• vdi

[vdidude]

Now you might bring up terminal serice licenses, but that can be applied to 1 machine, and how many people access and use it.

VDA is applying to all other devices that connect back to an OS already licensed per user.

I REALLY wanna see an attorney try to explain how Mirosoft can explain this?!

[vdidude]

It automatically puts a tax on those selling thin client devices which do not even hold the OS, they are just a meanst to commuicated with/to it.

This seems like an anti-trust practice & a violation against the person or company's choice of HOW to access & use the software already purchased. Then add a yearly rent fee.

If Chevy had a car, and then charged users a fee if they bought after market products, installed them, and then charged them a yearly fee. All holy hell would break loose.

[vdidude]

Maybe I just at first accepted because it wasnt my bill but the more I look at this, the less and less legal it looks.

VDA licensing basically charges you $100 for any device that you use to access the software running remotely somewhere else. Now when purchasing a license of a Desktop, you hav purchased the right to use it, not how its used, or how you even get to it. This has been shown time and time again with GotoMyPC, remotePC, other softwares.