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At 6:10pm on July 23, 2009, Jim D said…: There is a new MS brief for Virtualization licensing that allows you to purchase a PC with Vista Business, Vista Enterprise, or Vista Ultimate and then load the guest virtual machines with up to 4 copies of any MS desktop OS in the XP, Vista, or 7 family at no extra cost. Search for "virtualization", "Microsoft" and January, 2009.

At 7:52pm on December 29, 2008, Jack said…: Hi Colleen!

Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from Maryland

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 5:15am on October 21, 2008, Jim D said…: Coleen;

Regarding your question about Fiddlehead licensing...Fiddlehead is very clear about licensing. Unlike others (nComputing tells you that you are on your own or it is a gray area, or ask MS...softExpand is the same), FH makes it very clear that you are loading (or cloning) one copy per "seat" and that you need to license it just like you were loading a regular PC. A campus agreement works perfectly for that, as does OEM licensing. If you want to pay for a FRP (full retail product) you certainly can, but you can get OEM licensing from FH at less than $90). In fact, 2 of our MS resellers told us that it is the same as loading multiple copies of Windows using VMWARE and there is a volume license agreement that allows you to load up to 4 copies of XP at a time for NO extra cost. When I talked to MS direct they told me that they are finishing up on a volume license agreement that specifically deals with this new type of product. They inferred that they really liked this model and were willing to work with it, especially with schools.

Jim