Microsoft's Upgrade Advantage... Anyone want to explain to me the pricing??

[iamwiz82]

Microsoft has created a new program called Upgrade Advantage link. This program helps people running businesses, schools, etc with licensing by allowing them to buy floating licenses, which allow you to buy a license and then use it to upgrade over the next 2 years. Therefore, if you have NT4, you could buy one license, upgrade to 2000, and then upgrade to XP on the same license(if i understand everything correctly).

My question is: where the heck is pricing for it? CDW is basically useless link. Look at all of those letters, i cant figure out which is which.

 

[SQL]

Microsoft's licensing has become so convuluted lately that my advice is to contact a license specialist that can help and explain. CDW has them.

Basically what you said is correct. We receive academic pricing here, and the upgrade advantage isn't a drastic increase over what the regular academic prices are. About the only thing you are responsible for is the media cost, which runs about $20. Of course you really only need to buy one of those so it works out well when it comes time to upgrade.

 

[iamwiz82]

I'm trying to grasp CDW as we speak. If its only $31 for a level A license(which we are) I will give Bill Gates a kiss myself. BTW, i thought MS was trying to convince people that licensing was easier now. Any company that requires you to be a certified license specialist to sell licenses has issues.