software asset management

Microsoft has cancelled a planned Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing feature that would have allowed employees to include a business justification when requesting a Copilot license. Roadmap item 547731 had been positioned as a straightforward way to give administrators more context, shorten...

Microsoft has spent nearly three years building IntelLicense, an enterprise-wide platform that pulls contracts, costs, supplier records, product data, employee usage telemetry, and licensing information from 19 systems into a Software Asset Management portal, then uses agentic AI to answer...

Used Microsoft license reseller Soft & Cloud used a June 15, 2026 advisory from Münster, Germany, to argue that businesses can save materially by buying second-hand Microsoft volume licenses, but only if they can prove origin, transferability, deployment fit, and audit-ready compliance. The...

European businesses can legally buy certain used Windows Server licenses when the original license was perpetual, the seller’s rights have been extinguished, and the buyer receives a verifiable chain of ownership showing how the license moved from first purchaser to current holder. That is the...

Flexera One is now being shown as a single-pane solution that takes raw discovery data, applies Microsoft product-use-rights logic, and produces actionable entitlements and optimization recommendations for Windows Server and SQL Server—reducing both audit risk and cloud spend while exposing the...

Software licensing has quietly become one of the most strategic battlegrounds for enterprise IT in 2026, and Microsoft partners have been recast from occasional resellers into continuous advisors, compliance guardians, and FinOps collaborators guiding organizations through subscription...

Germany’s federal digital authority has admitted it cannot say how many federal workstations still run Windows 10, who will pay for the Windows 11 migration, or when that migration will finish — a stark symptom of deeper breakdowns in inventory, license management, and IT governance across the...