Now, corporations must either activate individual keys for every Vista PC with Microsoft or with a Key Management Service hosted on an internal server.

Microsoft as recently as earlier this month that the Volume Activation 2.0 tools would not be available until next month.

Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment 2007 offers advice and tools to companies upgrading to Vista and Office 2007. is virtualization client software. Software Assurance customers are licensed to use Virtual PC 2007 to run any of their older applications in environments as old as DOS, said Boetcher. Vista Enterprise Edition users can create up to 4 additional licenses of Windows per client PC.