The new licensing fees are expected to be implemented after the second quarter, the sources noted.
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Part of me would be shocked, part of me wouldn’t.
I live 2 miles from MS’s main campus and I have seen the level of people they hire there. The smart people want to get the hell out of there and the dumb ones seem to make it to upper management.
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Wouldnt this be an Aprils 1st fools joke?
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Bit early for that, and it’s Micro$uck…sooooooooooo ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Yeah of course you could expect everything from Microsoft lol.
But yeah if you buy a license then they dont,
really know on which kind of hardware you are going install it on yet.
This doesnt really sounds to me that it would become a thing for mainstream users.
But yeah with MS you never know.
If this isnt a joke it looks like I’m moving to linux for good. What the fuck microsoft.
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Not surprised. They charge per core for server equipment. Bcuz that makes sense.
sauce
Think microsoft is thinking they need to charge for all the extra cores on processors now because they needs the money 
Wait, they do that now?
It’s per core, not per socket? I’d understand per socket, but with core counts going up, that’s going to be hard for a lot of companies to swallow.
not microsoft im sure this core count thing is irking them …
Why would it irk them?
Why should Microsoft care what hardware you put your software on? Its their job to make sure it works, not to charge extra for the privilege of spending more on hardware.
really i dont know but i can see the bean counters saying hey those people are getting more performance out of our os with all those cores… we need to make money off that .
I can see that too, I’m just hoping this is an April fools joke.
me to .
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-pricing
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/sql-server.aspx
One step closer to monthly charge to use your own hardware.
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Theyd have to improve a lot of things before they could realistically do software as a service. There is a reason I didnt complete my MCSA.
I think the CEO of MS secretly loves linux and he is trying to sink MS to the point where he forces people to switch.
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Different product segments might as well be different companies IMO.
The people who work on the OSS projects on GitHub vs the people who work in the enterprise space.