Reseller Selling Standalone Windows Media Center Software
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At least one vendor is selling OEM copies of Microsoft&#39;s new Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 operating system online, possibly exploiting a loophole in Microsoft&#39;s contracts.
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So-called FairUse program breaks copy protection on Windows Media Player.
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Partner to sell technologies that will allow users to operate and manage telephone calls from their desktops.
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'Not an open system' Dell is considering an authorised resellers program for Europe, after taking the plunge into the channel in the US.â¦
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Corporate licences make for happy software vendors
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LicenseWise and Windows Vista Hardware Assessment help users navigate Microsoft offerings.
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Tek-Tools Software, Inc., the leading developer of proven resource  management software solutions, announced today that it has signed a  premier reseller agreement with Cambridge Computer, a national  integrator specializing in data storage and data protection solutions.
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The computer maker will pay affiliates that help sell downloads.
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A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools
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Company hopes to attract users who will later upgrade to its small business software.
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The company plans to making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet.
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New online service Mac2Sell estimates resale value of used Macintosh systems.
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The latest version of Microsoft&#39;s Windows XP Media Center turns a specially configured PC into a photo album, DVD player, music center and TV set.
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(InfoWorld) - At its partner conference this week MicrosoftÂ released new tools to help partners navigate two of the company's more complicated offerings: product licensing and the Windows Vista client OS. The licensing tool, called Microsoft LicenseWise, builds upon a previously released tool for Microsoft customers, Product License Advisor. Product License Advisor helps customers configure an IT environment and generate a report online that would tell them what licenses they would need and the cost, Mike Oldham, general manager for Microsoft's worldwide licensing and pricing, said in an interview at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. LicenseWise picks up for Microsoft's business partners where that tool leaves off, he said. It allows a partner to access a quote a customer generated in Product License Advisor, build its own pricing into it, and then generate a proposal back to the customer for how much it would cost to license those products through the partner. Microsoft's complicated licensing schemes have long been a headache for partners and customers, but the company has made a concerted effort in the past several years to simplify the process, Oldham said. For instance, just two years ago, Microsoft had 74 licensing models customers could choose from; now they have nine, he said. More information about LicenseWise can be found on Microsoft's partner Web site. The new Vista tool also is an extension of software that is already available, called Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, said Mike Sievert, corporate vice president of the Windows business group. That application helps business users see how much effort it will take to migrate desktops in a company to Vista by testing the hardware and device-driver capability of PCs against the OS and issuing reports about those results The new tool, Windows Vista Business Value Assessment, allows partners to sit down with customers to not only assess how Vista will impact their network, but also figure out how to improve the TCO (total cost of ownership) of the installation, Sievert said. TCO is "front and center on the minds of our customers" when it comes to Vista, he said. Sievert acknowledged that business customers are still in the early stages of deploying the OS, which was released to business customers last November, so it's important Microsoft articulate how to upgrade to Vista in the most cost-effective way possible.
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Some reseller partners of security appliance vendor IronPort Systems are taking the good with the not so good. IronPort partners like Peter Kolb, director of data sales at Triple A Networks, a technology integrator
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Priced at $249.99, it can play MP3, WMA and WAV-encoded music files.
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With elaborate fanfare this month, Microsoft yanked the wraps off the latest version of its Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) operating system. Although the software has had some moderate success -- Microsoft recently announced MCE unit sales had broken the million mark -- getting couch potatoes to become computer-friendly tubers has been a daunting task.