| Title | Microsoft to NHS: We Want your Money You can Cough in June or Cough Harder Later | |
| Date | Monday June 30 2014, @06:33PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the arm-twisting dept. | ||
The Register reports that Microsoft is going after the UK's National Health Service threatening them with drastically increased software payments over claimed licence violations.
The company this month wrote to NHS organisations saying [recent NHS overhauls] made "this latest review and subsequent re-allocation necessary". It told the bodies to assess their software estate and cough for any "identified shortfall" by 30 June.
Microsoft's fiscal '14 closes this month and a spike in NHS revenues will help lift the numbers, no doubt, with some close to the company estimating several million pounds could be made from this audit exercise.
Any failure by an NHS body to hit the deadline this month will equally be a welcome boost to Microsoft's Q1 sales ledger for the next financial year.
How many shake downs will it take before the UK public sector realises that open-source solutions are a better option than being locked into a single commercial supplier's product?
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