Judge dismisses Microsoft's challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain The ValueLicensing case against Microsoft is set to proceed in the UK after a judge dismissed the Windows vendor's jurisdictional challenge and strike-out application. Microsoft had hoped to have its UK arm struck off from the claim and suggested that Ireland would be a better place for the claim to be heard, particularly if …
Since MS released Windows 10 its essentially just their equivalent of how Google uses Android, in that its a tool for them to collect user data for showing ads and to up sell other services which users have to pay for. As locking users into a monthly ongoing subscription is much more lucrative than a one off payment for a Windows license.
That probably the reason why they no longer restrict what you can do in Windows if its not activated, as they don't really care if you pay for a one off Windows license anymore as long as you use it to send them all that lovely telemetry.
At first glance, it does look here as if Microsoft has behaved in an anti-competitive manner but given the fact that ValueLicensing is one of the smallest players within the European second-hand software market, with a sales turnover of less than £5m pa, how an earth does VL justify that it has lost £270 million GP?
F'k the cloud.
If I have my data on my server that I can disconnect from the internet and said server is locked in a room with a sign saying 'Beware of the Leopard' on the door, I know that it is more secure than any effing cloud system.
F'k MS
F'k Amazon
F'k Google
My data is mine, not yours to collect and sell on to frigging ad slingers.
"Microsoft had hoped to have its UK arm struck off from the claim and suggested that Ireland would be a better place for the claim to be heard,"
This is actually quite an achievement. If you look at the TOS for MS, Google, Amazon, Ebay, Paypal etc for supply into the UK, they all say that the agreement is between the UK customer, and the <insert foreign country here> office of the supplier, not it's UK subsiduary. Every case I've read about prior to this has usually fallen over at this hurdle.
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