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  1. Microsoft Criticizes UK CMA's Cloud Licensing Ruling Amid Market Competition Concerns

    Microsoft's response to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) regarding the regulator's provisional ruling on cloud software licensing pricing is robust and critical. Microsoft calls the CMA's intervention "extraordinary and unprecedented," emphasizing that no other software provider...
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  2. Microsoft’s Cloud Lock-In: The Hidden Costs of Switching from Windows to Linux

    Microsoft’s Cloud Lock-In: The Stark Cost of Ditching Windows for Linux in the Era of Hyperscale Cloud A transformative shift is happening in enterprise IT, with organizations moving massive workloads from on-premises servers to the cloud. Yet, beneath the hopeful rhetoric of flexibility and...
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