Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 22:20 UTC
Right now, the net is abuzz about remarks Steve Ballmer made at a Belgium news conference today. The buzz comes from a Reuters story which quotes Ballmer as saying that Windows XP's life cycle might be extended if customers demand it. Contrary to what all those reports online might indicate, there really is no change in policy here.
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Member since:2007-06-29
They would rather you pay for the latest license so they can use the stats for marketing. They really don't care if you use the actual software or not. We've had clients wanting to run the latest versions of MS SQL Server before our software was certified for it. So we put them on SQL Server 2000 because they had a license for SQL2k5 already.
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2005-07-06
I thought that was already the case.
That is how the rest of their software seems to work. I tried to buy SQL Server 2000 the other day (for deploying a legacy app) and the MS sales guy told me my only option was to buy a 2005 license, then I was licensed to run any older version of the product I wanted (even if they were not supported anymore). I asked him if the same was true for all MS products and he said he was pretty sure it was.