RSSMicrosoft slashes its software licensing prices
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published March 10, 2009, 5:41 PM
The Enterprise Agreement (EA) product promotion is one of a wide range of customer pricing incentives for businesses of various sizes now highlighted on the Microsoft Incentives Web site.
Under the EA promotion, customers can get 25% off the cost of the License and Software Assurance (L&SA) contract on subscriptions to the enterprise editions of Windows Server, Exchange Server, Office Communications Server (OCS), and Server Management Suite. Microsoft is also offering 15% discounts on the L&SA for standard editions of nine server software products.
With these discounts, Microsoft is taking the opposite approach of business software makers like Oracle and SAP, whose hikes on maintenance contracts have spurred customers to refuse to upgrade and sometimes to jump ship for third-party software support providers like Rimini Street.
In another promotion, for example, businesses making purchases through June 26 are receiving subsidy funds from Microsoft for use on services from Microsoft partners.
Still way overpriced. Let the Microsoft infected companies send tons of money to Redmond so the companies free from the Microsoft tax and use their extra money to innovate and ultimately win in the marketplace.
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|Anything that costs money is overpriced in your eyes, which pretty much makes your comments on price irrelevant.
Good luck on your pipe-dreams though... Let us know how *that* works out.
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|I am not sure how you see out of my eyes, but ok, whatever you say. I have _no_ issue paying $129 for OSX....a non-artificially stripped OS, which by the way, i can legally install and run simultaneously on three machines. Have to love a $43 OS. How much does Vista Ultimate cost for one machine? yeah, like I said....WAY overpriced.
I will not even bother to mention the absolutely absurd prices for Microsoft Office...but hey, that new GUI is worth it, right? ROFL!
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|$129 for every upgrade.
vs.
$99 for every upgrade (Service packs free)
Now tell me how many home users have 3 computers? Less than 20%? Right.
So what was your point (other than to expose your gross ignorance yet again?)
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|What if (and I'm only saying "what if") Microsoft announced a $77 price for upgrading to Windows 7 starting July 7? The play on "7" would give their marketing dept something to do for a while at least.
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|What marketing department?
I still think they got the mohave and I'm a PC commercial ideas from the on-campus daycare center....
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|This is pretty substantial being considering its right on the heels of the EC browser compromise. It's becoming fairly obvious that Microsoft is taking the forecasts calling for leaner times ahead seriously. They've clearly made a strategic decision to do whats needed to ride out the storm, be it a slight loosening of their desktop monopoly or rescaling their pricing. While the overwhelming bulk of their business is enterprise-based (just like all other companies in their league), I expect to see a little love for the common folk, too. Its small business that's really going to be hurting this year, and that means the majority of consumers who are employed by them will be too. Depending on how bad things get, Microsoft will either do what's necessary to stay competitive in the small business/consumer space or it will simply let it crash and burn, hoping for a turnaround down the road. I predict they'll keep the Dells and HP's going, even if it means taking a hit on OEM profits.
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|How about the same price drop for retail users?
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|What retail customers? How many people actually buy a box of Windows at a store? According to their annual call almost nobody. The margins imposed on computer sales are minor compared to the hardware (as a total price per unit). What we may see is an unprecedented market blitz to upgrade from XP/Vista to Windows 7 for a very low price. If that happens, it will finally signal to the world that Microsoft can actually do something right when it comes to marketing. I'm not holding my breath though.
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|Not really. The $90 Microsoft OS is very visible in the price of a $300 netbook.
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|not alot these days, most get OEM but, Windows 7 feels more like when 95/98 etc was released, i think we may see more retail buys this time around
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|@fatty:
Ignorant trolling much?
ACER aspire one aoa110-1137 netbook intel atom n270 1.6ghz / 1gb / 16gb ssd / 8.9" wsvga / xp home / 802.11bg wireless / webcam / card reader (onyx black) (retail)
$269.99 (Mwave.com)
Acer aspire one aoa110-1295 netbook intel atom n270 1.60ghz / 512mb / 8gb ssd / 8.9" wide svga / linux / wireless (seashell white) (retail)
$299.99 (Mwave)
Funny how the XP system with more RAM, doube the HD size, a webcam, and card-reader is still *LESS* expensive than the Linux comparable.
Talk out of your a** much?
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|LMAO Tool... I was just about to do the same damn thing...
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|*Throws some water on fatty*
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