Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights.doc

Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights Worldwide English October 2005Introduction These product use rights: Group all the Microsoft products into nine licensing models. Each model has a consistent set of?license?terms. Identify the products for each licensing model. General License Terms. The General License Terms that follow the Table of Contents apply to all products. Licensing Models. These product use rights include nine sections; one for each licensing model. They are: Desktop Applications Desktop Operating Systems Developer Tools Online Services Servers – Operating Systems Servers – Management Servers Servers – Server/CAL Servers – Per Processor Servers – Specialty Servers The Table of Contents and the introduction to each section list the products that fall into each licensing model. In each section, we provide the standard license terms for the licensing model, and then describe any product-specific license terms for products in that licensing model. Software Assurance Benefits. Appendix 1 contains license terms that apply to Software Assurance benefits. The Product List describes these benefits. Product Pools. Please note that the licensing models are not product pools. The Product List indicates which of?the three pools (applications, systems, servers) each product falls into. License Terms for a Product. To find the license terms for a product, you should identify the licensing model for that product (see the Table of Contents). The license terms that apply to your use of the product are: the General License Terms; the standard license terms for that licensing model; and any product-specific license terms for that product (included at the end of the licensing model?section). Prior Versions and Products No Longer Available Worldwide. These product use rights generally cover the most recent version of products that are available worldwide. For license terms for products that no longer appear in these product use rights, you will need to review a prev