Neowin News Feed for: Licenses

Generative AI is transforming our ability to understand licenses

Paul Hill — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:24:01 +0000

Terms and licenses have long been hard to read for a lot of people. With generative AI, however, you can now get summaries of these documents and ask specific questions about your obligations. Read more...

Beijing finally grants licenses to NetEase and Tencent to publish new paid games

Usama Jawad — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:10:01 +0000

It seems like China has finally started loosening its grip a little on its local tech sector. The country's regulator has finally given NetEase and Tencent permission to publish new paid games again. Read more...

Windows 8 reaches 100 million licenses sold

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:59:15 +0000

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 14:59:58 +0000

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 08:55:35 +0000

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 14:25:37 +0000

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 19:04:27 +0000

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 16:28:09 +0000

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 13:31:44 +0000

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

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

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

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:48:21 +0000

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

Tue, 08 May 2007 22:54:35 +0000

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

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

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

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:50:23 +0000

"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 09:15:44 +0000

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

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

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 10:17:39 +0000

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

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:37:24 +0000

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

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:01:29 +0000

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 01:33:48 +0000

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

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

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...

palmOne Licenses Microsoft Exchange Server Synchronization

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:32:02 +0000

palmOne, Inc. today announced that it has licensed Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange Server ActiveSync® protocol to enable the delivery of security-enhanced, wireless and direct synchronization between Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003, part of Windows Server System, and... Read more...

Virgin Licenses Scaled Composites Technology

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:53:32 +0000

Scaled Composites, designer and operator of Space Ship One, have announced a deal with Virgin today. Worth ~$20 million, the tie up will see Virgin license Space Ship One technology, and offer flights under the... Read more...

BioWare Licenses Unreal Engine 3

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:43:39 +0000

BioWare has sent word that they've signed a license agreement with Epic Games for the Unreal Engine 3. The engine will be used in an unannounced upcoming title, which will feature BioWare's third new intellectual... Read more...

Acclaim loses Turok, Baseball licenses

Marcel Klum — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 18:26:18 +0000

There was further bad news for troubled publisher Acclaim in its latest round of regulatory disclosure documents, as the company admitted that it has lost the rights to the Turok franchise and Major League Baseball.... Read more...

Microsoft Offers Free Licenses for Backup Servers

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 03:14:03 +0000

Microsoft Corp. has begun offering free software licensing for "cold servers" or networking computers that are kept off until they are needed, the world's largest software maker said on Friday. The new feature, part of... Read more...

Linux seller licenses Windows Media technology

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:39:20 +0000

Turbolinux, a Japanese seller of the open-source operating system, has bridged a philosophical divide by licensing Microsoft technology for playing digital music and video. Pragmatism led the company to combine products from the... Read more...

Film Director John Woo Licenses 'Metroid' Game

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:33:23 +0000

Action movie director John Woo wants to bring one of the most famous women in video gaming to the big screen, and he plans to spend big bucks to do it. Woo's production company, Tiger... Read more...

Samsung licenses PowerVR MBX

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:03:25 +0000

UK system-on-a-chip developer Imagination Technologies will see its PowerVR MBX 3D graphics core used in ARM-based mobile phone and PDA processors made by Samsung. The company today said that ARM had sub-licensed the technology to... Read more...

Apple licenses iPod to Hewlett-Packard

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:20:26 +0000

Apple Computer said it would license its leading iPod digital music technology to Hewlett-Packard, the world's second largest computer company, as it seeks to break out from its niche markets. HP will also bundle Apple's... Read more...

ALi licenses Pentium M chipset technology from Intel

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:44:34 +0000

ALi announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Intel on chipset development supporting the Intel Pentium M processor. ATI Technologies was the first company to sign the Pentium M chipset agreement. Silicon... Read more...

EU Expands Probe of Microsoft to Software Licenses

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:44:22 +0000

The European Commission widened its probe into Microsoft Corp for anti-competitive practices on Thursday, asking computer hardware makers for details of their licensing deals with the software giant. Competition regulators at the European Union's executive... Read more...

SCO licenses Microsoft protocols

Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:04:02 +0000

The SCO Group is one of four new licensees for Microsoft's interoperability protocols, we learn from the latest antitrust compliance bulletin. Regular reports are issued to monitor compliance with the Antitrust settlement, specifically "to ensure... Read more...

U.S. Unsatisfied with Microsoft Licenses

Thu, 03 Jul 2003 22:13:33 +0000

Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday they "remain concerned" about the price Microsoft Corp. plans to charge competitors to view the inner workings of the Windows program under its antitrust settlement... Read more...

AT&T Wireless to Trade Licenses

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:50:00 +0000

REDMOND, Wash. - AT&T Wireless has agreed to pay $30.75 million in cash and assign some of its wireless licenses to Chicago-based U.S. Cellular Corp. in a deal covering 15 states, the companies said Monday.... Read more...

Palm licenses LIM's secret fusion formula

Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:49:26 +0000

Palm has followed Handspring and licensed Research in Motion's extraordinary new technique of generating cold fusion energy at room temperature. RIM has "a history of developing breakthrough wireless solutions", and the fusion... Read more...

Finding pay dirt in scannable driver's licenses

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:55:56 +0000

Slashdot has a good article and thread going (which comes from the NY Times, yea i know registration required but neowin/neowin works quite well!) on the dangers of people reading the magnetic strip on the... Read more...

DivXNetworks licenses MPEG format to Fraunhofer

Thu, 07 Feb 2002 00:41:09 +0000

In what looks to be a case of selling sand to Saudi Arabia, DivXNetworks Inc said yesterday it has licensed its controversial DivX MPEG-4-based video technology to the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (Institut Graphische... Read more...

Microsoft Licenses DVD-Authoring Software for Longhorn

Steven Parker — Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:48:12 +0000

Microsoft announced this week that it has licensed Sonic Solutions' DVD-authoring technology, probably for inclusion in the next version of Windows (code-named Longhorn). Following Microsoft's announcement, shares of Sonic Solutions soared almost 40 percent yesterday.... Read more...