When Office is acquired through some Volume Licensing agreements or CSP, then portable use rights for Office are available; if a customer has purchased an Office license for a device, then they are also allowed to install Office on a…
It’s probably not a requirement that many customers have, but when you assign an Office license to a device then you are allowed to install the Office software as many times as you want to on that licensed device.
Office LTSC 2021 is licensed by device: a license is assigned to a device and the software is licensed to be used on that device. Office licenses are a special type of license called a Suite license. This means that…
Office LTSC 2021 is the Microsoft suite of desktop productivity tools and is a cost-effective way for organizations to license all of these products. The LTSC was added to the name for the 2021 release and indicates that this is…
Much as we have hesitated to reproduce the tables available in the Product Terms, the availability of Windows device licenses is pretty tricky to fathom with all the User SLs mixed in, and so here’s a summary:
When Windows client products reach the end of their support lifecycle, Microsoft no longer programmatically provide regular security updates. However, customers who need to continue running these older versions of Windows can purchase Extended Security Updates (ESUs) if they have eligible…
Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 licenses do not include Software Assurance. Windows 11 Enterprise and VDA device licenses do include Software Assurance which gives access to a VDI infrastructure via VDA rights, as described in the…
Organizations may choose to install Windows 11 locally on a user’s device, or to set up virtual desktops on their servers and to have their users access them from their devices – a setup known as a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure…
Typically, there’s some flexibility on how often a device license may be moved between different devices. However, when Windows 11 Pro licenses and Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 licenses are assigned to devices, that assignment is permanent. Windows 11 Enterprise…
The Windows 11 Servicing Channels control how often feature updates are available for Windows 11 devices, and there are three different Servicing Channels available. In the General Availability Channel feature updates are released annually, and it is used for both…