09 October 2006
Vista Equals More Costs For Business
It has been warned by Gartner that the way volume license users are required to activate Windows Vista will cost more for companies in hardware and staff time requirements than the security benefits.
Previously companies could install Microsoft software using a volume license keys (VLK) which didn't require them to activate each computer the software is installed on. Microsoft's Volume Activation plan requires that each computer be activated either through Microsoft servers or a internal Key Management Service.
The benefit of such a system is that it ensures that the software installed has not been tampered with, but the cost of labour and hardware is higher than that benefit.
Microsoft has to be given credit for doing a lot to prevent their products from being tampered with and pirated. The thing that Microsoft has forgotten in that process is the customers and partners. They have worked on stopping pirated Vista copies, but made more work on the part of the users and who knows how long it will be before someone manages to crack that and pirate it anyway. They have also worked very hard on security itself, but left several security solution providers stating that they will be unable to provide proper security on Vista and users will have to work twice as hard to install a third-party security solution.
Previously companies could install Microsoft software using a volume license keys (VLK) which didn't require them to activate each computer the software is installed on. Microsoft's Volume Activation plan requires that each computer be activated either through Microsoft servers or a internal Key Management Service.
The benefit of such a system is that it ensures that the software installed has not been tampered with, but the cost of labour and hardware is higher than that benefit.
Microsoft has to be given credit for doing a lot to prevent their products from being tampered with and pirated. The thing that Microsoft has forgotten in that process is the customers and partners. They have worked on stopping pirated Vista copies, but made more work on the part of the users and who knows how long it will be before someone manages to crack that and pirate it anyway. They have also worked very hard on security itself, but left several security solution providers stating that they will be unable to provide proper security on Vista and users will have to work twice as hard to install a third-party security solution.
Labels: microsoft, vista, windows
