Software Licensing Solutions and Programs offered by Microsoft

Software Licensing Solutions and  Programs

In this post we will discuss variety of Microsoft's Software licensing solutions and programs in detail,
There are several factors involved while suggesting right software licensing solutions to the customer, or User.


Following factors need to be considered, the size of the organization, whether they want perpetual or non-perpetual software licensing, Software Assurance is required or not, and they want to standardize the software on all PCs in their organization or not.

There are several types of licensing solutions and programs options available for the customer.

Open License Business, 
Open License Volume, 
Open Value, Open Value with company-wide option and 
Open Value Subscription (where available).
and so on.

Open License Program

Under Open License Program are designed for the needs of SMB, includes corporate, academic, charity, NGOs and Govt. starting from only 5 software licenses

There are two techniques of software licensing under this program.

·         Open License Business
·         Open License Value

Open License Business

Under Open License programs map to the needs of corporate, small, and medium businesses. The Open License programs share many of the same features, but provide organizations with additional options.

This solution offer savings on estimated retail prices of full packaged products that can be opened with any five software licenses or one server processor license; additional orders may be for as few as one software license.

Open License Volume

This licensing solution offers additional savings to organizations that can meet the initial software license order quantities in one or more product pools (applications, systems, servers) it uses product pools and points to establish the entry minimum for price levels, Software Assurance is available for software licenses at the time of order. All Software Assurance begins at the time of order and ends when the Open License agreement term ends. Minimum points required under each pool is 500 points to be eligible to acquire this licensing solution.