Microsoft is going to charge 11 bucks a month for each desktop PC attached to Intune, the cloud service that manages SMBs, once it comes out of beta early next year.

And Microsoft will throw in upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise Edition.

Microsoft is moving to beta 2 with the stuff and expanding the test bed from 1,500 Americans and Canadians to 10,000 North Americans and Western Europeans in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Spain and the UK. Beta 2 is limited to five-25 machines. Resellers will be able to keep tabs on several customers in a single multi-account screen.

Admins can monitor and keep an inventory of the widgets, apply updates and patches and manage security policies.

An extra buck a month buys Microsoft's desktop Optimization Pack with tools for on-site troubleshooting and managing group policies.