Starting on Wednesday, enterprises can sign up for Microsoft Select Plus — a new licensing program that one analyst said seems to be designed more to help the software giant than its customers.

Select Plus  is similar to Microsoft's Select volume licensing program in that it lets companies combine the purchasing power of different departments to qualify for bigger volume-based discounts. Select Plus has a couple of differences but not much that will be particularly attractive to most companies, according to Paul DeGroot, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft.

Source:→ PC World