Windows 10 Workstation Licensing costs on VMWARE

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We have dev / test / Preprod / and production environments,

We pay (with software assurance) £450ish per windows 10 license is this normal? - that was the past purchase for our non prod environment (13 units @ 450 each),

we only need the cheapest version of windows 10 that can join a domain and is correctly licensed for vmware / enterprise..

does this seem right ?
 
£450 for each Windows 10 Pro Workstation license? :eek::o:mad:

I tried to googled cant find a company or store sell Windows 10 Pro Workstation for £450 each. That is absolutely ripped off or scammed. it not right.

I can find Windows 11 Pro Workstation OEM license in many online retailers for £279 each.

But I found much cheaper prices for each Windows 10/11 Pro Workstation license from Microsoft authorised reseller sell Windows 11 Pro license £19.95 for 1, £36.90 for 2, £51.90 for 3, £79.90 for 5, £129.90 for 10 and £224.90 for 20. Windows 11 Pro Workstation license is expensive £29.95 for 1, £57.90 for 2 and £139.50 for 5.
 
What is your actual licensing setup? I assume you have an IT provider with some kind of volume licensing and whatever software assurance you touched on.

The legal side of licensing Windows in a business can be complicated never mind if using a provider rip off or not, then the actual support side and whatever the cost covers there.
 
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Rroff said:
What is your actual licensing setup? I assume you have an IT provider with some kind of volume licensing and whatever service assurance you touched on.

The legal side of licensing Windows in a business can be complicated never mind if using a provider rip off or not, then the actual support side and whatever the cost covers there.
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they are machines used by our support staff not by customers.. they sit on out own infra, I'm seeing people purchase these licenses @ £450 for the bit of paper with a number on just seems steep
 
Is this VM/VDI/VDA/SA subscription? where you are actually paying £450 per year (per device/user) and get 5 or 10 licenses per £450?
 
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Rroff said:
Is this VM/VDI/VDA/SA subscription? where you are actually paying £450 per year (per device/user) and get 5 or 10 licenses per £450?
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its 450 for a windows 10 license with 3 years sa - the windows 10 machine will be virtual hosted on our own infra.. Sorry licensing is not my thing and i dont think its really our software assurance teams thing either
 
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Depending on exactly how you are using these virtualised Windows 10 installations you may be able to get a bit creative with the licensing. For example, if you were to access these VMs via their console session (eg. treating them as if they were a regular computer), and you were to tie them to a particular VMware host (so no automated DRS or migration between hosts), then you could possibly make the argument that you could use regular off the shelf Windows 10 Pro Retail licenses. This gives you the right to install one instance of Windows 10 Pro on a device - and that device can be physical or virtual.

However if you're accessing them via RDP, or if you can't tie them down to specific VMware hosts, then because you're dealing with a client Windows OS you're probably not going to be able to get away from having to license them on VDI terms which most likely means paying through the nose for that privilege.
 
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