As Microsoft Corp. continues its drive to make its licensing models simpler and more understandable to enterprise customers, the company will slash the number of product licensing models from 70 to nine effective July 1. Microsoft's PUR (Product Use Rights) document for enterprise customers, which is similar to an end-user licensing agreement, will also be simplified.

Microsoft has been trying to simplify its licensing models since it introduced the controversial Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance plan in 2002. As Microsoft has added new products under the volume licensing umbrella, the licensing terms and models were added to the PUR agreement, which has kept growing and currently stands at 100 pages.

"So we looked at the 70 products and realized we could group them into just nine categories as well as simplify the legalese in the PUR and reduce repetition," said Sunny Charlebois, a product manager for Microsoft's Worldwide Licensing and Pricing group, in Redmond, Wash. 

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