Windows 2000 Server: Licensing Mode

Licensing pays the good folks at Microsoft for all of the hard work they put into developing the Windows 2000 operating system. There are two main aspects to licensing. You pay for the local operating system, and you pay for client access. So if you are running Windows 2000 Server as your server and Windows 2000 professional and Windows 98 for your clients, you must license the appropriate operating system for each individual computer. You also license the access of network servers.