Microsoft to indemnify most customers from legal threats

[Paul Markham]

Microsoft to indemnify most customers from legal threats

How does this effect Acacia?

In a bid to further differentiate itself from open-source rivals, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it will expand its indemnification program to cover the vast majority of its customers. The move, experts said, is great marketing but will have little impact on users.

For several years, Microsoft has indemnified, or protected, its volume license customers from possible legal threats stemming from their use of Microsoft software. Last year, Microsoft lifted the monetary cap on that protection. The vendor is now extending protection to virtually all users of its products.

"This expansion will cover several million more people," said David Kaefer, director of business development at Microsoft. "We performed a review of the indemnification we offer today and came to the conclusion that there really is no reason why we would not offer it to anybody

[reynold]

let's see after a few months. how will it affect acacia

[Paul Markham]

Originally posted by reynold
let's see after a few months. how will it affect acacia

Very true, too early to tell. But looks good, assuming you bought the software and use WMV to stream.