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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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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.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. But he sought to assure the virtual audience that AWS is not even close to its zenith, citing the 96% of the estimated $3.6 Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo). A recent U.S.

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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux

GeekWire

At the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference Tuesday morning, the company announced a series of new features for Amazon Q Developer , its AI assistant for software development, including one that uses AI to help companies migrate legacy Microsoft.NET applications to Linux.

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NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

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Geoevents-chef-installer: A set of Chef recipes (think of them as macros to automatically build a running Virtual Machine) that will work to set the geoevents app up on either a local Virtualbox VM or onto an Amazon Web Service VM. GeoEvents was used by deployers and first responders in over 100 real-world events. In the News.

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Software firm sues Amazon in contract dispute over Emirates VR experience at Dubai Airshow

GeekWire

A lawsuit by Surreal Holdings against Amazon Web Services cites a segment in this video by popular aviation and travel vlogger Sam Chui as evidence that its work for Amazon and Emirates was not confidential. The work was part of a collaboration between AWS and Emirates, announced last year , to create virtual reality (a.k.a.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

They don’t need to utilize the same resource as virtual machines do. Containers are faster to start up, drive higher server efficiencies, and reduce server and licensing costs. Though containers solve a lot of security problems compared to traditional virtualization methods, they also introduce new security challenges.