Microsoft’s cloud ambitions just hit a major snag in the UK. The tech giant is facing a £1bn ($1.27 billion) lawsuit over how it licenses software to customers using rival cloud platforms. Filed in ...

Microsoft is now facing a major legal challenge in the United Kingdom over allegations tied to its cloud software licensing practices. The case claims the company overcharged businesses using Windows ...

Microsoft said Google is running "shadow campaigns" to discredit the software giant with regulators in Europe. In a blog post, a Microsoft lawyer said Google is behind a coalition of cloud companies ...

Microsoft has sought to discredit claims that its two biggest public cloud rivals – Amazon and Google – are being competitively disadvantaged by its controversial licensing tactics, in a submission to ...

Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a ...

Google filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission on Wednesday. In it, Google accused Microsoft of making it prohibitively expensive for cloud customers to move their work from ...

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New reports reveal regulators are examining licensing, interoperability, and product bundling practices that could affect enterprise customers' ability to switch vendors. Microsoft continues to face ...

After more than a decade of delay, regulators in three of Microsoft’s major cloud markets — the U.S., the United Kingdom and the European Union — may finally be taking steps to hold the tech giant ...

CISPE’s European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) will keep an eye on Microsoft and other hyperscalers to ensure fair competition for regional service providers. Microsoft’s cloud business is ...