Tim Long

Forever in Electric Dreams
The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

Action Pack Changes

As you can see at David Overton's blog, Microsoft partners will once again be getting the full-install media (as opposed to upgrade) for Windows Vista Business as well as a single license for Windows Vista Ultimate. When Microsoft changed to upgrade media around a year ago, the partner community was up in arms as we'd have to do every install effectively twice and it would be harder to set up virtual test environments, etc. Microsoft's response was that it was concerned about piracy, but it looks like they've realised that we, the partner community, are not the ones to be worried about. Read more about the upcoming changes on David's Blog.

Nice result. It would have been nice if it hadn't taken an entire year to happen.