software costs

  1. How Microsoft’s Licensing Practices Impact Cloud Competition and Costs

    Microsoft’s licensing practices for Windows Server in the cloud have become a significant point of contention in the competitive cloud computing market, especially regarding how these practices impact major cloud rivals like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Since Microsoft’s 2019...
  2. Microsoft 365 Fee Hike: Is Lifetime Office the Better Choice?

    The software landscape is evolving—and sometimes that means paying more for a service that once felt like a bargain. A recent report from PCWorld highlights one of the more intriguing shifts: Microsoft is raising the fees for its Microsoft 365 subscription service, which in turn makes the...
  3. Windows 8 pricing for system builders said to be roughly the same as Windows 7

    If you want to build your own Windows 8 PC, expect to pay just under $100 per copy for the consumer version, according to the latest scuttlebutt. More...
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    Windows 7 Should Microsoft Windows 7 be free of charge?

    Microsoft’s' newest operating system, Windows 7, has a new campaign out. The advertisements follow certain people around, and they end up showing how "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea". Of course Microsoft's new operating system was someone else's idea. They haven't had an original idea in...