ZDNet

Microsoft to hike by 13 percent its user client-access license prices as of August 1

As of August 1, Microsoft will raise the prices of a number of its User client-access licenses (CALs) by 13 percent. The affected CALs are for on-premises, not cloud, products. The prices of Device ...
ZDNet

Microsoft to make its first Core client-access-license change in 10 years

Microsoft announced this week that it is making a change to its Core CAL (Client Access License) bundle-- something of interest to its business customers who purchase enterprise products. Microsoft ...
usace.army.mil

Army upgrades security, collaboration, home use with joint enterprise license

WASHINGTON (Jan. 15, 2013) -- The Army, along with the Air Force and Defense Information Systems Agency, have access to the newest versions of Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office 2013, ...
Network World

Microsoft CALs and External Connector Licenses…Part I

At least once a month I run into a seasoned IT professional who will finally admit that they’ve never quite figured out how to license CALs (and at least once a quarter that someone asks “What is a ...
CRN

Microsoft Puts 'Eiger' Thin Client Into Early Testing

The planned product will technically function as a thin client that access the Windows server terminal services over Microsoft's own remote desktop protocol (RDP) and Citrix's ICA protocol but also ...
Computerworld

Thin Clients Get Microsoft’s Approval — for Some Users

Once an avowed opponent of thin clients, Microsoft Corp. has made an about-face in recent years. And last week, the company brought its affair with network computing into the open, revising two ...