cloud licensing

Microsoft is back in the dock over cloud licensing, and this time the dispute sits at the intersection of antitrust law, enterprise procurement strategy, and the future shape of the cloud market itself — a dispute that could change how UK organisations buy and run Windows Server workloads...

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has begun a pivotal review of whether a collective £2.1 billion lawsuit alleging discriminatory cloud-licensing and pricing by Microsoft should be certified and allowed to proceed to a full trial, a legal moment with potentially far-reaching consequences for...

Microsoft now faces the prospect of a landmark UK collective action that accuses the company of a deliberate, coherent abusive strategy to penalise businesses that run Windows Server on rival clouds — an allegation that, if allowed to proceed, could reshape enterprise licensing, cloud...

Microsoft is fighting to prevent a proposed multi‑billion‑pound collective suit over Windows Server licensing from becoming a full, jury‑style testing ground for how software giants price and tie their products to cloud infrastructure — a battle that could reshape cloud procurement, licensing...

Microsoft faced a fresh challenge in the UK on 11 December 2025 as a Competition Appeal Tribunal hearing considered whether a mass damages claim alleging abusive cloud-licensing practices should be certified — a case that accuses the company of deliberately imposing higher costs for running...

A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...

Microsoft will tell judges at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) that a proposed mass claim accusing it of anti‑competitive cloud licensing practices should be struck out because the plaintiffs’ methodology for proving common liability and quantifying loss is flawed, a move that puts the...

Google’s cloud antitrust complaint against Microsoft has been quietly folded into a much larger regulatory test of the industry: the company has formally withdrawn its EU complaint after Brussels opened a trio of Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations into cloud computing services...

Alphabet’s Google has withdrawn its formal EU antitrust complaint alleging that Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices locked customers into Microsoft Azure, a move timed immediately after the European Commission launched a broad market investigation into the cloud sector under the Digital...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a tactical retreat that hands the agenda to Brussels — but it does not end the contest over how hyperscale cloud markets are regulated, nor the substantive claims about customer lock‑in and...

Google’s decision to formally withdraw the antitrust complaint it lodged against Microsoft last year is a tactical retreat that hands the baton to Brussels — but it does not close the dispute over how Microsoft prices and licenses Windows Server, SQL Server and related workloads for use on rival...

A high‑stakes, potentially precedent‑setting legal push against Microsoft over its cloud licensing policies is gathering momentum in the UK: competition lawyer Dr Maria Luisa Stasi is pressing a proposed collective claim worth roughly £2 billion that alleges thousands of UK organisations were...

Google Cloud has publicly reminded regulators that it filed a formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices one year ago — and warns that little has changed while competitors, customers and regulators continue to grapple with pricing, portability and potential vendor...

Google’s decision to keep the pressure on Microsoft over cloud licensing turned into a public reminder this week that the fight over how Windows and SQL Server licenses move into the cloud is far from settled—and that regulators, competitors and customers are still picking through the...

Google’s formal complaint to Brussels ratchets up one of the most consequential regulatory fights in cloud computing: the search giant says Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices lock customers into Azure, harm competition and security, and should prompt fast antitrust action from the European...

Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators...

ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product — it was created and is operated by OpenAI — but the relationship between the two companies is deep, strategic, and increasingly intertwined, which explains why ChatGPT often feels like a Microsoft feature inside Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365. tl agent...

Sure’s Channel Islands data-centre arm has added Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub to its managed portfolio, giving local organisations the ability to run Azure-consistent infrastructure-as-a-service workloads inside on-island facilities while keeping data, compliance controls and support physically...

Behind the sleek veneer of Britain's digital revolution lies a fierce contest for control of the nation’s cloud infrastructure—a contest now coming under hard governmental scrutiny. This summer, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) drew a definitive line in the sand: its final report...