Microsoft said that on Dec. 1, it will enact new licensing terms for virtual "instances" running on Windows Server 2003 R2, due to ship by end of the year, and for the Windows Longhorn server ...

With the Flexible Virtualization plan, customers can license the number of cores they want to use in the virtual machines. Microsoft is also opening doors to sales of longer-term hosted solutions ...

The licensing price list, obtained by TechWeb from a Microsoft partner, and available on the Microsoft for Partners Web site, details costs of Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition ...