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Microsoft are trying to rationalise how their licensing works. Historically, they've had a myriad of different websites you had to use depending on if you have an Open Subscription License, an Open Value License, an MSDN license or a license that you made up yourself with a box of magic markers and a sheet of paper.
They're certainly trying to merge Subscription and Open Value right now - I recently purchased a few licenses on the OVS plan the website for which is being shut down and I'm having trouble accessing them on the "new" system. This isn't another "gosh how fragile everything is" story. The only eyebrow-raising part is that you would expect Microsoft to have a whole brace of plan Bs in place at the drop of a hat for just such an occurrence. However, anyone who has worked with Microsoft products for any length of time and continues to do so must be fairly used to the triumph of hope over experience by now.
Indeed, it's one of the chief reasons I'm going Open Source everywhere I can. Budget is part of it, but it's just as much the obscene horror story that their licensing is. Couple that with the fragility of their only real option for license management, and you get a picture of a company that's awfully good at cashing your check, but has little concern with any kind of meaningfully delivery of service. This is what a monopoly gets you, incompetence and arrogance. Remember Vista activitation problems?
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As one of their ideal customers, we used to make a lot of use of eOpen. We registered all our licences on there, and it was nice, a single portal to track all of our Microsoft licences and upgrade rights. Turns out that they linked the accounts to Live, and that your account expires if you don't use it for 90 days. Handy that for corporate account licence management, and strangely enough we haven't used it since.
Same shit happened to pretty much all of my clients. I've been insisting that people keep all of their licensing info registered so that they have an easy off-site access point in addition to their regular documentation backups, to keep it "safe" and quick to get at - and after all where better then the very vendor who insists on all that activation and serial number crap, surely they will appreciate their customer's efforts!
Even if it is a truly vile de-facto monopolist vendor such as Microsoft We have a few licenses that used to be managed through eOpen, I never received any notification about its disappearance, but happened to discover the switch to Volume License Service Center on Friday when trying to login to eOpen.
VLSC was definitely up and running at that point, I could log in and manage the same licenses that I used to with eOpen. That said, the initial terms of agreement screen that appeared after logging into to VLSC was terribly confusing. A blank window with no instructions, I was exp. Hardware distribution is an entirely different and far more complicated matter, you need sufficient manufacturing capacity, combined with sufficient supply of the source components Any of these failing will cause significant delays, a single tiny part being in short supply can scupper your entire production run.
I bet there is a server experiencing downtime every hour somewhere in the world causing customers pain. Lets post individual stories about it! You have no clue. I am an IT manager for a mid-sized company. Want to do site licensing? And the site sucks. Features don't work. The navigation is a nightmare.
And now, it is down. So, yes, it is a big deal. There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead. Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool so your projects have a backup location, and take advantage of SourceForge's massive reach.
As this is Microsoft's main channel for managing and installing licenses for products such as Server, and for open license products for business, this makes the company effectively 'closed for business! Telephone calls to their support numbers for the licensing program yield either busy signals, or a message saying one should 'call back later.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. Maybe it was running Vista Score: 5 , Funny. Share twitter facebook. Re:Maybe it was running Vista Parent Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 2. Nah, eOpen site is simply relying on some office libraries and they locked themselves out! Maybe they were smacked in the snout by the blue screen of death. You mean black screen of death.
Score: 5 , Insightful. Maybe they had a problem with Genuine Advantage. Are they using Genuine Microsoft software? Score: 5 , Informative. This is a non-story, as Elizabeth points out. Thanks for clearing things up, Ellie. Score: 4 , Interesting. I apologize for putting my foot in your mouth.
Re: Score: 3 , Funny. By now they are probably booting a Ubuntu LiveCD. At least it's finally safe from crackers and script kiddies. Until it's up again, that is. Extended chistmas hollidy Score: 4 , Funny. The QuickBooks Conversion Tool is a free downloadable tool that easily imports business data Microsoft Office Accounting Express PlusOffice is equipped with an information window that is shown when the application loads.
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