The customers applications are interacted with via the Virtual Desktop as a GUI end user application, there is no multi-plexing or “server” functionality leveraging these components, it’s just a classic desktop application. The Customer has certain 3rd party applications, that require the use of the Visual C++ redistributable. These server OS licences, RDS SAL’s, and all associated server workloads (Windows, SQL etc) are also licensed under SPLA.

NET or Java.Īny restriction in the installation of this software would therefore limit the installation of any third party application that happens to have been written in Microsoft Visual C++ which is why I believe the term is not intended to restrict installation in my scenario, however I am getting conflicting advice from SPLA advisors and need clarity.Ĭustomer end users work from a Virtual Desktop hosted on Windows Server using Remote Desktop. It is an application framework similar to. It is very common to have this bundled in the installation of everything from Games through to accounting software. In this case, the C++ Redistributable is provided free of charge to allow third party developers to build applications in Visual C++ and provide them to end users. The exact same statement exists in a number of 'free' products that Microsoft distributes.

My question regards a statement in the End User Agreement for Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable. It was suggested that I post my question here, so hopefully someone can provide some clarity for me.

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