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The UK's market regulator says "competition is not working as well as it could" in the local cloud services sector, and it plans to look harder at what AWS and Microsoft are doing – while giving Google a pass – in its Cloud Services Investigation. Unsurprisingly, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that cloud …

  1. Michael

    dichotomy

    I am not a Microsoft fan. I'd be happy to see an end to them. Other than for work requirements, and even then not often, I've barely used their products since the late 90's.

    I do still find it difficult to argue against the idea that you sell to a competitor for less than you can sell yourself.

    Ideally we should be encouraging Microsoft charging more for hosting anywhere other than azure to encourage everyone to move away from windows based systems.

    I've argued since 1998 that long term Microsoft will become a Linux desktop environment as no publicly listed company can afford the staff cost for developing basic os functionality. The money is in support, tools and unfortunately belief in one service is better than another.

    Ultimately Microsoft charging more will long term make them irrelevant. Alternatively, they will adapt to provide a service people want to pay for. There is still the fact they have the ability to force people to pay excessive amounts for existing services. Long term people will move on to something else.

    1. ManInThe Bar

      Re: dichotomy

      "I've argued since 1998 that long term Microsoft will become a Linux desktop environment as no publicly listed company can afford the staff cost for developing basic os functionality. "

      27 years is a long time to have held this view, during which period Microsoft has managed to do what you assert is impossible.

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