Comment Re:Clarification of SMB support/FUD (Score 1) 607
The key thing to understand here is that the machines aren't checking in to Microsoft, they're checking in to your companies servers. It isn't Microsoft locking you out, it's your corporate IT team. They can use this to ensure that the business is only paying for the licences it has in use. They can keep track of systems that have fallen into disuse or that Bob's manager has said he can take home because "nobody will mind". And they know that guy they had temping in Operations over summer didn't wander off with the cd key and start selling dodgy copies on Ebay, forcing them to go through the expensive and problematic task of re-keying machines.
Where they deem it inappropriate, they can choose to use MAK activation instead. And they can still keep track of how many and which machines were activated.
Where they deem it inappropriate, they can choose to use MAK activation instead. And they can still keep track of how many and which machines were activated.
