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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SunSpot who wrote (44291)	5/4/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

SunSpot - MSFT has not even offered the "per PC" licensing since 1995... and even then, it was optional, you always had the choice of buying per license instead. Maybe things are different in Europe... And as far as not using competing software, MSFT has never done an end-user deal that said anything about use of competing software, and I sifted through hundreds of pages of DOJ testimony looking for it. I think someone in your IT department just lied to you because they didn't want to support anything but the base MS apps - it happens all the time. It's a lot easier to blame some non-existant license agreement than just admit that IT doesn't want to support more than a handful of apps. But if such a deal actually existed, it never came up in any of the research that the DOJ did either in this case or in the previous consent decree. So I doubt that your company actually got a discount from MSFT for using MSFT "all over the place" aside from the volume discount. They were just trying to get the lowest price by getting volume up. The rest was just BS to get the employees to play along.