VMware unhappy with Microsoft over virtualization license changes

VMware unhappy with Microsoft over virtualization license changes

Virtualization industry giant VMware has expressed their disappointment over the recent changes in licenses announced by the software industry giant Microsoft.

The company has now published a white paper highlighting facts which claim that Microsoft is trying to block competition in the virtualization market.

The paper released by the company highlights the recent changes Microsoft has made to licensing terms for products such as published virtual machines, Windows XP and Vista and virtualization specifications.

VMware says that these new licenses restrict customers’ flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can run it.

With this, VMware claims that the company is trying to force their customers to use its own virtualization products.

Chief executive Steve Ballmer was recently quoted in the media saying that they are planning to compete very aggressively with VMware. VMware said that they are doing so by leveraging the dominance of their key products such as Windows, Exchange, SQL Server and Active Directory in the industry.

Checkout: Microsoft Virtualization Licensing and Distribution Terms