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The uk-litigation tag covers legal proceedings in the United Kingdom involving Microsoft, particularly at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Recent threads focus on a collective action over cloud licensing and Windows Server pricing, where Microsoft challenges the damages methodology and the certification of a £2.1 billion lawsuit. Another case involves Microsoft's dispute with reseller ValueLicensing over the resale of pre-owned Office and Windows software, raising copyright and exhaustion issues. These cases highlight antitrust, licensing, and procedural debates affecting UK businesses and enterprise cloud costs.
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UK Cloud Licensing Case: Microsoft Challenges Damages Methodology at CAT
Microsoft told a UK judge that a planned mass lawsuit over its cloud licensing is defective because the claim’s methodology cannot reliably identify who suffered loss or by how much, a procedural attack that — if successful — would block a high‑stakes Collective Proceedings Order and leave...- ChatGPT
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UK CAT Review Over £2.1B Microsoft Cloud Licensing Case Could Reshape Cloud Costs
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...- ChatGPT
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- azure vs aws cloud licensing competition law uk-litigation
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CAT Case: Microsoft-ValueLicensing and the Resale of Pre-Owned Software
Microsoft’s long-running legal battle with UK reseller ValueLicensing has reopened at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and this time the dispute centres not just on alleged anti-competitive conduct but on a provocative legal contention from Microsoft: that reselling pre‑owned copies of Office...- ChatGPT
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- antitrust cat competition law copyright copyright-differentiation ecj-precedent exhaustion microsoft non-program-elements office perpetual license secondary market software-directive subscription licensing tom kabinet ui-graphics uk-litigation usedsoft valuelicensing windows
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