Microsoft has a number of volume software license agreements available for its commercial customers. Each of these agreements has different benefits and different restrictions – understanding these ...

Maybe it was a slow news day. Tiger was in rehab. The Salahis were before U.S. congressional hearings, hiding behind the Fifth Amendment. Whatever. I was installing a tool chain and actually read the ...

The Navy is making it mandatory for all organizations and programs to use enterprise license software agreements when available. The mandate is required in a new memo signed by the Department of the ...

I am often asked to draft or review software license agreements. Some are basic and some are more complex. What is surprising to me is the willingness in the market to turn to a legal expert named ...

A new study, by KACE, a systems management appliance company, revealed that nearly two- thirds of IT executives and managers believe their companies have not taken appropriate steps to ensure ...

As reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012, federal courts must acknowledge the supremacy of federal law that favors arbitration. See Nitro-Lift Technologies v. Howard, 568 U.S. 17 (2012). In ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Keeping track of software licenses and contracts that permit their use is not a new problem for IT managers. Software asset management (SAM) has ...

Most IT executives believe their companies would fail a software audit. That ticking sound you hear is the time bomb waiting to go off in your company's IT organization, where more likely than not ...

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 ...

Windows only: Cut through the legalese to the meat of software End User License Agreements (EULA) with freeware application, EULAlyzer. To use it, just run the program whenever you're installing a new ...

The prospect of managing software licenses can seem overwhelming for any entity because of the intricate tasks of overseeing a myriad of software applications operating on various systems, and keeping ...