Microsoft's recent decision not to charge additional licence fees for multi-core processor technology will save customers money and could force competitors to reconsider their own licensing strategies, according to Gartner.
In a recent advisory Gartner analysts Alvin Park and Jonathan Mein praised the software giant for its 'pre-emptive move', which means that Microsoft software licensed on a per-processor basis will continue to be licensed that way when installed on hardware containing dual-core and multi-core processors.
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