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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 hit with more litigation accusing it of predatory pricing

CIO Business Intelligence

All UK businesses and organizations that bought licenses for Windows Server via Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud may have been overcharged and will be represented in this new ‘opt-out’ collective action,” the law firm statement said. “I The lawsuit is seeking more than £1 billion (roughly US$1.3 Kimball asked.

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

Network World

Alphabet’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud, tried to sustain the European Union’s inquiry into Microsoft’s antitrust practices in the cloud computing sector by offering complainant Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) a package worth €470 million ($511 million), Bloomberg reported.

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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. CISPE is a trade group of cloud service providers and includes over 35 members including AWS. This product must be delivered within nine months.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

Factors such as egress fees — which service providers charge customers for extracting data from their cloud — and preliminary discounts might be contributing to vendor lock-in, regulators fear. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.

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Turnkey AI option puts organizations in control

CIO Business Intelligence

The breakthroughs from cloud-based leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, and others are impressive, but their focus on outdoing each other and the huge investments needed to do so might be obscuring the more measured approach their customers prefer.