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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union. OVH, along with fellow CISPE member Aruba.it

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Guidelines not policies: The University of Texas at San Antonio’s approach to gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Melissa Vito, vice provost for academic innovation at UTSA, admits she first heard about ChatGPT while getting her hair cut in 2022, and immediately thought the university needed to get ahead of it. We immediately looked at tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot because we already had a Microsoft 365 license,” says Ketchum. “We

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VMware by Broadcom: Product, service and support news

Network World

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. We’ve tracked the saga since Broadcom first announced plans to acquire VMware in May 2022. Here’s a record of what has transpired so far, plus the latest news and analysis.

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Google offered complainant €470 million to maintain Microsoft antitrust probe: Report

Network World

The development comes just days after CISPE settled with Microsoft and withdrew the complaint it had filed in November 2022 with the European Commission, the EU’s antitrust authority. Although Microsoft may have found relief in the EU, it still continues to face inquiries over anticompetitive practices in the UK and the US.

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Microsoft settles cloud complaint for $22M to avoid EU antitrust probe

Network World

A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem. Microsoft will also compensate CISPE members for lost revenues related to high licensing costs over the past two years.

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