Microsoft is enabling "Shadow IT"
Not surprising. Companies buying tons of licenses for office suites, and who will be fined by the BSA for having unlicensed copies (or where the license cannot be located) are leery of shadow IT where end users buy whatever software they want. Microsoft is still working from the idea that "Really, all PC users are hobbyists who are running a little non-networked machine to play with Basic programming."
They are really pushing for the world of cloud computing where a lot of companies are unable to control department-level shadow IT. At least in the cloud model, the licenses are sorted.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
