“Microsoft should end the arbitrary ‘Listed Provider’ designation and allow customers to run their previously purchased software on any platform without paying as much as 5X more to use non-Azure ...

Google LLC today announced that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft Corp. with the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm. The move has to do with Windows Server.

Microsoft Corp. has been sued in the U.K. over the way it licenses its software to customers of rival cloud providers. Maria Luisa Stasi, a market regulation expert, filed the complaint today with the ...

Microsoft’s licensing of its software and services in the cloud is getting it into more hot water in Europe. This time it’s a group of Spanish startups that has called on regulators to investigate ...

CISPE, a trade body for infrastructure as a service cloud firms in Europe, issued a complaint Friday alleging that Microsoft's licensing terms for running its software products on alternative clouds ...

The interim findings of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) investigation into Microsoft’s cloud software licensing strategy should be a significant cause for concern for the software ...

Microsoft’s response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into its cloud licensing practices has seen it accuse arch-rivals Amazon and Google of “muddying the waters” ...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg ...

Software licensing in 2026 looks dramatically different from what it did even five years ago. What was once considered a back-office procurement task has now become a strategic lever for digital ...