Neowin News Feed for: Licenses

Windows 8 reaches 100 million licenses sold

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:59:15 +0100

Tami Reller, Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer, has revealed that Windows 8 has reached 100 million licenses sold after 6 months on the market, while the Windows Store has seen 250 million downloads Read more...

Microsoft: 60 million Windows 8 licenses sold, 100 million app downloads

Brad Sams — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:16:59 +0000

Microsoft has announced today that 60 million licenses of Windows 8 have been sold to date and that there have been 100 million downloads from the Windows Store. Make the jump to learn more Read more...

630 million Windows 7 licenses sold to date

Brad Sams — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:59:58 +0100

Microsoft has provided an update on its WIndows 7 sales and has said that there have been 630 million licenses sold to date which is 30 million more than the last update of 600 million. Read more...

Microsoft confirms 600m Windows 7 licences sold

Andy Weir — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:55:35 +0100

The launch of Windows 8 is getting closer, but its predecessor is still doing well: Microsoft confirms that it has now sold more than 600 million Windows 7 licences, an increase of 75m in five months. Read more...

Microsoft could earn $444 million a year from Android Licenses

Brad Sams — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:25:37 +0100

Microsoft has landed many Android patent agreements with Google's vendors. If a report is to be believed, Microsoft could earn $444 million a year off of these agreements. Read more...

Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 licenses sold to date

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:27 +0100

During the keynote at WPC: Day 1, Steve Ballmer took to the stage and announced that Microsoft has now sold more than 400 million licenses for Windows 7 to date. Since the release of Windows 7... Read more...

88% of businesses moving to Windows 7, 94% satisfaction rate

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:28:09 +0100

Today, at PDC 2010, Steve Ballmer took the stage to announce some exciting new products and updates to Windows, Azure and many more products. During the announcement, Steve Ballmer talked about how Windows 7 has surpassed... Read more...

One year on: Windows 7 now on 93% of new PCs, 240 Million Licenses Sold

Tom Warren — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:31:44 +0100

Microsoft said on Thursday that Windows 7 is running on 93% of new consumer PCs and has over 17% global OS market share. Windows 7 was released a year ago tomorrow, on October 22, 2009. The... Read more...

Watch Gates' Keynote, 100 million Vista licenses sold

Slimy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:25:32 +0000

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Whether you love him or hate him, you won't want to miss his last CES Keynote, especially with announcements like Microsoft having sold 100 million licences of its latest OS. I know people tend to... Read more...

Unreal Engine 3 Licenses GameSpy: PC-PS3 Cross-Platform Play

Slimy — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:48:21 +0100

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Epic Games has agreed to incorporate GameSpy's suite of online technology into Unreal Engine 3, under the terms that the technology will be immediately available to any publishers or developers that license the engine. PlayStation... Read more...

HP Licenses Nanoscale Electronic Device Stamping Technology

Slimy — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:54:35 +0100

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Nanolithosolutions of Carlsbad, California has licensed a technology process from HP Labs called nanoimprint lithography– a method of literally stamping out patterns of wires less than 50 atoms wide on a substrate. NIL technology has... Read more...

Dealer of Forged Microsoft Licenses goes to Jail

Slimy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:13:56 +0000

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A German court has sentenced a 42-year-old Turkish software dealer to two years and 11 months in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses. The man was arrested in June 2006 by German... Read more...

Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use

ironsight2000 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:50:23 +0100

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"TechWeb has posted an article regarding Vista's new license and how it allows you to only move it to another device once. How will this work for people who build their PCs? I have no... Read more...

Sony Online Entertainment licenses Unreal 3 engine tech

Todd Tanner — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:15:44 +0100

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In what has to be one of the biggest new stories to hit the online gaming scene in quite awhile, Sony Online Entertainment announced yesterday that they had licensed Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology for... Read more...

AMD Licenses Rambus Technology

stncttr908 — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:33:30 +0000

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Fear not readers, this is not an announcement that AMD will be shifting to RDRAM for Socket AM2, so sit back and relax. Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to pay Rambus... Read more...

Gearbox licenses Unreal Engine 3

Todd Tanner — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:17:39 +0100

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Gearbox Software announced yesterday that they had entered into a long-term agreement with Epic Games to use the Unreal Engine 3 technology in thier future next-generation Console and PC games. Previously, Gearbox has used the... Read more...

HP Calls on IBM, Sun to nix OS Licenses

malebolgia — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:37:24 +0100

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To help nudge Linux and open source software further into the enterprise, a vice president at Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday called on rivals IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc to invalidate their open-source software licenses in... Read more...

Microsoft Licenses Finjan Security Patents

malebolgia — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:01:29 +0100

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Microsoft has invested in security company Finjan Software and licensed its patents that cover ways to protect systems against previously unknown security threats. The deal, announced Wednesday, gives Microsoft a minority share... Read more...

U.S. Army licenses Unreal Engine 3 technology

Todd Tanner — Wed, 11 May 2005 02:33:48 +0100

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West Point, NY May10, 2005 - The U.S. Army today announced that it is expanding its technology agreement with Epic Games. Since 2000, Epic's Unreal® Engine 2 has served as the foundation for America's... Read more...

Opera Gives Away Educational Licenses

lardiop — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:17:31 +0000

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Opera Software has announced that it will make its popular web browser available free of charge to universities and colleges. Originally, schools had to purchase licenses in bulk at a cost of $1 each. Institutions... Read more...