European cloud providers locked in talks with Microsoft over licensing complaint

A trade group representing 27 cloud businesses is back at the negotiating table in a bid to resolve the lawsuit it filed over Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive licensing policies. The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) association, which includes mostly local businesses and Amazon Web Services, …

[Tom Chiverton 1]

Why is this hard? Force MS to allow bring-your-own-licence regardless of bare metal or virtualization platform.

Done.

[Vincent van Gopher]

Microsoft . . .

. . . must be broken up. MS has far too much leverage in so many important areas.

[mark l 2]

Microsoft's ability to give themselves an advantage when it comes to licenses for their own software, is the main reason they are able to be successful with Azure and so they won't want to give that up anytime soon to see AWS and others start to take away a slice of their cloudy pie.

[Cloudy Day]

The damage they have already done is tremendous

There are many, many customers out there who have already been coerced in to Azure as a result of Microsofts licensing ‘rules’. I would suspect that since 2019 they represent the single biggest growth engine for Azure. A customer who has, for example, been forced to move their VDI estate from GCP to Azure because of the 2019 licensing changes Microsoft made will have spent vast amounts of money on the migration, for literally no benefit. Microsoft should be made to pay redress.