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Microsoft is to become the latest member of CISPE months after negotiating a settlement with the trade association of European cloud providers over alleged anti-competitive software practices. However, not all in the group are happy with the enrollment. A senior spokesperson for the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers of …
"The ten-strong board of directors at the trade body "
How much MS paid them?
It's not a question "if", but "how much".
Microsoft literally bought an ISO standard for itself, buying a trade organisation management is absolutely trivial compared to that.
Embrace, extend. extinguish has never been free.