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Friday, February 1, 2008

How Microsoft calculates Processor license for multi-core processors

For Microsoft software with processor limits, each processor counts as a single processor regardless of the number of cores and/or threads that the processor contains.

For software licensed on a per-processor basis, each processor counts as a single processor, regardless of the number of cores and/or threads that the processor contains.


http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/1/e/f1ecd771-cf97-4d98-9a1b-b86e3f24e08f/multicore_hyperthread_brief.doc

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