Microsoft’s Windows 7 Upgrade Program: Not good for corporate users

There has been a lot of news emerging lately regarding pricing of Windows 7, although there are still some details yet to have been revealed to us all of the pricing seems very reasonable, especially if you pre order your copy. However one aspect where this doesn’t seem to be the case is in a corporate environment.

As many of you may know, when buying licenses for a corporate network a different form of licensing applies, and this is where the problem lays. Microsoft have announced changes to the upgrade system which only allows up to 25 PCs to be upgraded to Windows 7, it is currently believed that once this number is reached upgrades will require something Microsoft call Software Assurance maintenance contracts, this could prove to be very expensive for businesses rolling out Windows 7.

Check out PCWorld for an in-depth look into the many complications that this may cause to businesses.