Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging Microsoft software licensing policies are anti-competitive, including claims customers are being charged four times more to run Windows Server in non-Azure clouds. Some of the arguments have been heard by Reg readers for more than 15 months, with …
.. and don't use Microsoft products to do so.
Fun question: does the fact that you always authenticate via a Microsoft mechanism and domain not mean that they can always bypass your logins if they wanted to?
I mean, there must be a reason they're rumoured to have hepled with the Cloud Act (rumour because I cannot find any articles confirming this).
""" Windows Server "remains the dominant operating system," with 70 percent "plus" market share """
Is that in monetary value, or in copies of the O/S, or some other metric?
It's a bit of an unfair comparison, considering all the free versions of Linux which obviously have $ zero market share. Even RHEL is pretty cheap compared to Windows server I believe.
I get the feeling that there are WAY more Linux installs, but perhaps that's just because it's my job.
The only data I can find was from a few years back, indicating windows server usage (count of servers rather than revenue) at 70% of server systems WW. https://www.statista.com/statistics/915085/global-server-share-by-os/. So it does seemt be on par that Windows is used more than linux, for now.
Microsoft is screwing its customer base - run Windows, your data centre or our data centre, or pay the price. It keeps shareholders happy, the executives get their bonus, and everyone at Msft is happy. Their poor customers, who have legitimate reasons for wanting to use anything other than Azure, such as decent uptime and good security, are paying the price.
W3Techs say that around 86% of webservers they know of are running some form of Unix base (https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/operating_system). While obviously not all servers are webservers, I find it hard to believe that everyone else is using so much WinServ elswhere to shift that in completely the other direction.
They must be talking monetary value, because there's just no way otherwise.
I guess it depends on what type of company you are, whether you are a Microsoft Shop or open source (or both) and so on. I guess its a large enough problem for Google that they are throwing their toys out the pram about it, and if the world really ran on linux there wouldnt be much to moan about in the first place
For webserver, yes, it's almost entirely Linux.
But for other types of load, it's mostly Windows Server. Google are probably correct in that.
They'll be limiting the complaint to "not web server market", which is definitely a very large cloud market. May well be the largest clpud market in terms of dollar value - webservers are really cheap, in general.
"Now if you'll excuse me," the Google rep added, before climbing into his gold-plated limo and throwing a wad of twenty dollar bills at us "I need to get back to collecting and selling all of your personal information."
When reached for a follow-up comment, a Microsoft rep respond with "I can't hear you, I'm in my Jacuzzi suit!"
Are the last pillars preventing US economy disappearing, consumer goods, except for burgers, they hardly produce anything that the rest of the world wants.
Apart from corvettes, their car industry is reduced to pathetic minivans and 1958 Cadillac level gas guzzling pickup trucks built like T-Fords from the 30's.
The probability of this generation European politicians dealing with the MS monopoly and its power abuse seem slim, everyone in Brussels fears an angry phone call from the Pennsylvania Avenue . The positive side of endless US wars is that the world economy could probably split into regions, reducing access of Big-Tech to Russian, Chinese and other markets, whose combined size is larger than USA and Europe.
"If only we had and endless supply of money rather than the endless supply of stupidity."
It is the 'endless supply of stupidity' that is generating the seemingly 'endless supply of money^' at the moment ...
i.e. AI with everything.
:)
^ that is until the bubble bursts !!!
Society doesnt need an endless supply of money.
You dont appreciate that the quest for money does not produce happiness. Look at america, supposedly the greatest gdp, and yet they cant afford to give any benefits to citizens.
WHere is the free healthcare, or increased paid holiday rights, or parental leave ?
The economy observations are all bullshit numbers on paper, they are not about people, and we are all people.
Look at recent economies, housing is a failure and always increasing at rates far greater than increases in salaries. The economy is not serving the people. its enslaving them.
The more people in big cities and "economies" chase their careers the more of their life they are lose, time is taken from them... How many Americans cant afford housing or food and yet the economy is supposedly getting better and better if you believe all the graphs and powerpoints. Its a dumb race, idiots participate in it beliving that they are winning.
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