Microsoft Longhorn Datacenter Server Will Have No Virtualization Licensing Costs
Thursday, 12 January 2006 by Michel Roth
Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks people to license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off.
But something is changing.

Since the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft started approaching a per-use licensing model instead of a per-installation model.
So that now Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition owners can run up to 4 virtual machines with same OS at no additional costs.

Read more here.

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