Microsoft has sought to discredit claims that its two biggest public cloud rivals – Amazon and Google – are being competitively disadvantaged by its controversial licensing tactics, in a submission to ...

New reports reveal regulators are examining licensing, interoperability, and product bundling practices that could affect ...

Microsoft said Google is running "shadow campaigns" to discredit the software giant with regulators in Europe. In a blog post, a Microsoft lawyer said Google is behind a coalition of cloud companies ...

Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a ...

Google isn’t happy with Microsoft’s cloud licensing terms for Windows Server on non-Azure cloud infrastructure. Google isn’t happy with Microsoft’s cloud licensing terms for Windows Server on ...

Microsoft is now facing a major legal challenge in the United Kingdom over allegations tied to its cloud software licensing practices. The case claims the company overcharged businesses using Windows ...

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Google filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission on Wednesday. In it, Google accused Microsoft of making it prohibitively expensive for cloud customers to move their work from ...

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 ...

Enterprises can now bring existing SQL Server licenses to Amazon RDS, making it easier to move operational data closer to AWS ...