Microsoft revises licences
Microsoft has introduced new software licences designed to harmonise terms between countries.
At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Minneapolis the software giant announced that from October its volume licensing programmes for small and medium-sized companies will be merged into one.
The new Open Value programme will combine the Multi-Year Open spread-payment and Open Subscription Licence scheme.
Microsoft said that it has united terms as far as is possible, and removed unnecessary jargon from contracts, reducing the size of agreements by half.
