If you want to use a Microsoft Windows Desktop OS in your VDI environment, you have to have a special type of licensing called Virtual Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) licensing. Currently, VECD is only available via SA and is priced per device.

One executive responsible for Windows licensing, the Software Assurance (SA) maintenance agreement and Virtual Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) said Microsoft will revitalize its licensing program later this year to lift some of the restrictions of today’s per-device model.

“We will see incremental changes on product use rights, on product use types and on requirements customers can meet to enable more types of users,” said Amilcar Alfaro, senior product manager of worldwide licensing and pricing at Microsoft.

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