Microsoft program meets resistance
by Volker Weber
With a summer deadline looming, about two-thirds of Microsoft’s largest customers have not signed up for a new software licensing program that represents an important revenue stream for the company. According to surveys by two research groups, Gartner and Giga Information Group, one-third of businesses they contacted said they do not intend to sign up for the subscription-like software program and another one-third of businesses said they are undecided.