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Product Use Rights Clarifications and Summary of Changes - July 2009

We designed these product use rights to help you license and manage Microsoft products. For use of any existing product, you may refer to these or any prior update to the product use rights that applied to your use of that product. Below we identify additions, deletions and other changes to the product use rights. Clarifications are also provided in response to customers' questions. These clarifications reflect existing Microsoft licensing policies.

This update includes the following product additions (the licensing model is included as a reference):

Desktop Applications
  • Rental Rights for Office 2007 Standard
  • Rental Rights for Publisher 2007
Desktop Operating Systems
  • Rental Rights for Windows Vista Business
Servers – Server/CAL
  • Forefront Identity Manager 2009
Servers – Per Processor
  • BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0
  • BizTalk Server 2009 Branch, Standard and Enterprise Editions
  • Commerce Server 2009 Standard and Enterprise Editions
Servers – Specialty Servers
  • Forefront Identity Manager 2009 – Windows Live Edition
This update includes the following deletions:
  • BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0
  • BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Branch, Standard and Enterprise Editions
  • Commerce Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions
  • Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 – Windows Live Edition
  • Microsoft ESP
  • Microsoft ESP SDK
  • Money 2007 Deluxe Edition
  • Office Forms Server 2007
  • Office Forms Server 2007 for Internet sites
  • Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
  • Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Clarifications and other changes:
  • Desktop Applications
    We updated the use rights to add Rental Rights for Office 2007 Standard and Rental Rights for Publisher 2007, an additional license for customers to rent qualifying software on an assigned device.
  • Desktop Operating Systems
    We updated the use rights to add Rental Rights for Windows Vista Business, an additional license for customers to rent qualifying software on an assigned device.
  • License Mobility for Server Farms
    In the January 2009 product use rights, we added alternative use rights for certain server products and online services when they are used in a server farm. These use rights accommodate mobility of licenses across servers within a server farm. Despite anything to the contrary in your license agreement regarding which use rights apply to your use of the software, these use rights apply to your use of products under both new and existing licenses for the versions of products identified. For more information about these rights, see the Servers and Online Services sections of these product use rights and the Application Server License Mobility Brief at: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/5/695BA00D-C790-4C90-813A-F10539D97991/Application_Server_License_Mobility_VL_Brief_Nov_2008.docx.
  • Servers – Operating Systems
    We modified the Server – Operating Systems model to no longer require CALs when running in a physical operating system solely to run hardware virtualization software, provide hardware virtualization services or run software to manage and service operating system environments on the licensed server.
    We updated the Server- Operating Systems model to permit customers with licenses for Windows EBS 2008 Premium Edition or Windows SBS 2008 Premium Edition to run instances of earlier versions of those products.
  • Microsoft Online Services
    We updated the Microsoft Online Services model to provide leave unchanged for 12 months the license terms in effect when you first obtained your right to use a given online service, unless Microsoft is required by law to change the license terms.
    We updated the Microsoft Online Services model to differentiate when Microsoft could suspend or terminate an online service. We also clarified the circumstances under which Microsoft would use customer’s subscriber data and customer and Microsoft’s obligations for subscriber data.
  • Client Access Licenses
    We updated the Microsoft Servers – Operating Systems, Server/CAL and Management Servers language to indicate that Client Access Licenses permit access to servers licensed by that customer or its affiliate (as defined in the customer’s license agreement) customer’s affiliates, but not any other entity’s licensed servers.