Microsoft’s enduring dominance in the global software landscape has yet again come under regulatory scrutiny, this time in Brazil—a major developing market where shifting technology paradigms and evolving antitrust doctrines are colliding in dramatic fashion. At the heart of the current...
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Here’s a summary of the situation based on the CNBC article and the latest regulatory actions:
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Microsoft and Amazon are hurting competition in the UK cloud computing industry. The CMA highlighted significant “market concentration”...
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...
Microsoft’s licensing practices for Windows Server in the cloud have become a significant point of contention in the competitive cloud computing market, especially regarding how these practices impact major cloud rivals like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Since Microsoft’s 2019...