Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy' Microsoft is making a minor concession that allows customers with specific licenses to run Office wares in an AWS cloud – a week after Europe's competition regulators decided to officially probe its biz policies and practices. The licensing tweak, first noticed by analyst Directions on Microsoft (DoM), in part reverses a …
I thought Satya Nadella didn't seem like the type to engage in such anti-competitive behaviour, but I guess this is just in the DNA of Microsoft?
It's a shame, because on a level playing field Azure competes quiet well with AWS and GCP (I don't know about Alibaba), so they really don't need to do this. It's cheating, plain and simple.
> How did we get to a point where the software vendors think they can tell us *where* we can run their software?
The same place where social media companies can tell us what words we can use. At the same time being like stuck in a movie where every character is "Haywire" from Prison Break.
Two elephants actually. The first is that customers who (quite legally) implemented their office VDI on EC2 are forced to spend vast amounts of money moving it somewhere other than EC2, due to Microsoft’s October 2019 licensing rule change.
And the 2nd is that applications that require a sever side copy of Office to run still cannot be deployed on EC2 as there is no way to license Office on EC2.
Both of these situations massively favour Azure. I would be highly surprised if Microsoft are unaware of this….. I
