The Microsoft blogosphere Richter meter spiked earlier this week when word spread that Microsoft has a 15 percent price increase for User Client Access Licenses (CALs) coming on Dec. 1. In fact, it’s ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft has completely overhauled the license agreements it presents to customers. Historically, these end user license agreements, or EULAs, have been lengthy documents written in ...

The license agreement for Windows 10 is, like the OS itself, a different kind of beast, with new clauses that spell out automatic updates, the bundling of Office and what happens when a user tries to ...

Anyone have any Microsoft documentation on how to license users (NOT User Proxy objects) present within an AD LDS database? Got my answer from Microsoft Licensing. You either needs to use Windows CALs ...

Historically, hardware upgrades on Windows PCs that involved major changes (new motherboard and/or CPU, for example) required a phone call to Microsoft to reactivate the Windows license. Microsoft has ...

Windows upgrade licenses are expensive. Do they have an expiration date? That's a question I get often from people who own older PCs/laptops running Windows 10 Pro. If you replace that PC or laptop ...

Equally important, but often overlooked, is the question of a valid license (get a new Windows 11 license for 50% off on the PCWorld Software store): Don’t worry, in most cases, the upgrade from 10 to ...

When you install Windows, you are shown the Windows license agreement that provides all the legal language about what you can and cannot do with Windows and the responsibilities of Microsoft. Recently ...

Can you use the free Windows license to install Windows 11/10 on a new PC fresh? What happens if you change your computer’s configuration? What if you change Hard Drive, Motherboard, CPU, or Graphics ...