MS says no license fee for dual core

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

"Get your second processor for nothing and your license for free" Sorry bad 80's rock parody

The Evil Empire is not going to charge for licensing the dual core as two processors.

How can this be? Microsoft doing something logical and helpful (in any way to consumers).

So now Microsoft would only get 4 licenses for an 8way system. Surprising

Multiple sites are reporting this

 

[spyordie007]

I imagine once they are mainstream they will be quite common, this will lead to a lot of desktop/home users running with one. It would seem logical to only charge them for one CPU.

BTW although Hyperthreading isnt the same thing as a dual-core processor this is esentially the same licensing structure. As far as licensing is concerned processor means physical processor, not logical processor.

So now Microsoft would only get 4 licenses for an 8way system

that wouldnt be an 8-way system; it would be a 4-way system with dual-core processors

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
I imagine once they are mainstream they will be quite common, this will lead to a lot of desktop/home users running with one. It would seem logical to only charge them for one CPU.

BTW although Hyperthreading isnt the same thing as a dual-core processor this is esentially the same licensing structure. As far as licensing is concerned processor means physical processor, not logical processor.

So now Microsoft would only get 4 licenses for an 8way system

that wouldnt be an 8-way system; it would be a 4-way system with dual-core processors

That is the whole point. Server applications are mostly multi-threaded to take advantage of multiple processors but now there will be two REAL processors on one processor die with 80 - 100% improvement on multi-threaded apps so companies that needed 8 processors systems before and had to pay for eight separate processors will not only need to get 4 processors. Pretty good deal.

Microsoft could easily have charge a per core charge licensing fee and gotten away with it due to its position so that i why I am surprised at this dare I say it, wisdom based move

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33

Originally posted by: spyordie007
I imagine once they are mainstream they will be quite common, this will lead to a lot of desktop/home users running with one. It would seem logical to only charge them for one CPU.

BTW although Hyperthreading isnt the same thing as a dual-core processor this is esentially the same licensing structure. As far as licensing is concerned processor means physical processor, not logical processor.

So now Microsoft would only get 4 licenses for an 8way system

that wouldnt be an 8-way system; it would be a 4-way system with dual-core processors

That is the whole point. Server applications are mostly multi-threaded to take advantage of multiple processors but now there will be two REAL processors on one processor die with 80 - 100% improvement on multi-threaded apps so companies that needed 8 processors systems before and had to pay for eight separate processors will not only need to get 4 processors. Pretty good deal.

Microsoft could easily have charge a per core charge licensing fee and gotten away with it due to its position so that i why I am surprised at this dare I say it, wisdom based move

Or MS can just charge the same price as it would for a 8 way as it as it would for a 4 way and make the same money as before but now your getting a deal.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33

Originally posted by: spyordie007
I imagine once they are mainstream they will be quite common, this will lead to a lot of desktop/home users running with one. It would seem logical to only charge them for one CPU.

BTW although Hyperthreading isnt the same thing as a dual-core processor this is esentially the same licensing structure. As far as licensing is concerned processor means physical processor, not logical processor.

So now Microsoft would only get 4 licenses for an 8way system

that wouldnt be an 8-way system; it would be a 4-way system with dual-core processors

That is the whole point. Server applications are mostly multi-threaded to take advantage of multiple processors but now there will be two REAL processors on one processor die with 80 - 100% improvement on multi-threaded apps so companies that needed 8 processors systems before and had to pay for eight separate processors will not only need to get 4 processors. Pretty good deal.

Microsoft could easily have charge a per core charge licensing fee and gotten away with it due to its position so that i why I am surprised at this dare I say it, wisdom based move

Or MS can just charge the same price as it would for a 8 way as it as it would for a 4 way and make the same money as before but now your getting a deal.

You are right of course LOL but I think we would hear a massive surge over to Linux/IBM etc in protest if they said they won't charge two licenses for dual core but they will double the charge for one dual core. Kind of circular reasoning and would be marketshare suicide for the end result would be the same and done in a sneaky but OBVIOUS way