Birth 8 x86 chips, 12 cores can do for the licensing of software by changing the number of processors. It seems to be beneficial for users of Microsoft server software.New multi-core technology promises to help users improve chip, while in theory would reduce the number of socket down. At this point, Microsoft has not really worried that sales license server software will be reduced by their customers to use more chips more powerful. However, many analysts are wondering whether this will last as long as the chip manufacturers are adding more and more cores per chip.

On 02.04.2010, officials said Microsoft has no plans to change the socket pricing that companies use today, even if Advanced Micro Devices promised to start rolling out chips on 16 core years. Eric Jewitt, director of server marketing for Microsoft Windows, see the company's core growth as the continuation of Moore's Law.

However, not all software makers are used in a calculation of the socket. For example, Oracle will assign a value to each chip manufacturers. In the case of AMD and Intel, Oracle set the factor of the processor is 0.50 for each core that is a quad-core processors are two chips. Many analysts wondered whether the socket pricing model will last long again. Mr. Rosenberg is believed that the socket model for calculation Microsoft will soon change.