Microsoft Server subscription licenses

Sean Roberts 21 Reputation points
2022-01-16T12:50:37.007+00:00

Is it true, that Microsoft has moved to subscription based licenses from 1st Jan 2022? MS Server 2022 Standard, SQL 2019 Standard, RDS, SQL Cal's all 1year subscriptions? and we cannot buy lifetime licenses?

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2022-01-16T15:01:25.253+00:00

    Is it true, that Microsoft has moved to subscription based licenses from 1st Jan 2022? MS Server 2022 Standard, SQL 2019 Standard, RDS, SQL Cal's all 1year subscriptions?

    You can purchase these items here.
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019-pricing
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-remote-desktop-server-cal-2022/dg7gmgf0d7hx

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  1. Erland Sommarskog 101K Reputation points MVP
    2022-01-16T13:41:54.593+00:00

    Never heard about anything like that. Not that I follow licensing very vigorously, but I kind of expect that I would have heard of such a radical change.

    From where have you gotten this, hm, rumour?

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