Microsoft enterprise licensing partners heading for extinction Microsoft is planning to shutter the classic enterprise licensing channel over the next three to four years, as indicated by the swingeing cuts to fees in recent times. This is according to Rune Syversen, CEO at Crayon Group, one of Microsoft’s top-ten biggest selling Licensing Solutions Partners (LSPs) worldwide, who is …
Microsoft is shifting to the Adobe and Office 365 model for all of its products. Why pay fees to get companies to sell perpetual licenses, when you force all your customers to just pay you monthly forever to use the software? I don't see perpetual licenses being available much longer -- Microsoft's official policy so far is that there will not be a Windows 11, for example. They used Office 365 to start gaining the acceptance, next will be client OS, and finally the server and applications.
The next huge shift will be the Oracles, CAs and SAPs of the world shifting to this model. There are companies out there that do nothing but resell licenses and attempt to clarify the licensing mess that is enterprise software.
Thus enters Linux onto the Stage... I'll grant you Libre / Open - Office will need to kick it up a notch, But This has about as much of a chance at succeeding as flying porcines. The only reason Adobe can get away with this is, there really doesn't exist anything like their products outside of their products. Windows however, has MacOS, iOS, Android, and Linux to contend with. So the only neck MicroSoft will slit, besides their partners. Will be their own.
And, we haven't even begun to discuss the currently waining levels of trust poruring out of Redmond. I guess MicroSoft are trying to morph into some EMC/AWS-esq Cloud purveyor. Cause they've clearly lost the plot on what made them great these nearly last Thirty Years.
"£I'll grant you Libre / Open - Office will need to kick it up a notch, But This has about as much of a chance at succeeding as flying porcines"
Quite - no way Open Office is ever going to take more than a tiny piece of Microsoft's market share. It's a very limited and crappy product in comparison with even more bugs and holes than Microsoft's Office!
Actually it is because their market is so small and specialized. And frankly I don't see even them getting away with it for too much longer. Installing and updating their software is a nightmare in a controlled corporate/government environment.
Microsoft will pay fees based on clients’ consumption of software, not the straight sale of a license, be it in cloud on on-premise.
Hmmm. That either leaves MS with a liability for the lifetime of that software, or it means they are expecting to charge clients for consumption - the subscription model that we have repeatedly been reassured isn't going to happen. And I can't see MS taking on a liability to pay per-use in return for a single initial licence fee...
This will be based on customers’ monthly reports
Is this the real reason for the Win10 spyware?
Vic.
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