windows server licensing

European businesses can legally buy certain used Windows Server licenses when the original license was perpetual, the seller’s rights have been extinguished, and the buyer receives a verifiable chain of ownership showing how the license moved from first purchaser to current holder. That is the...

Microsoft’s cloud licensing model has moved from a regulatory irritation to a full-scale legal and market test, and the latest development is a major one. The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed a £2bn class action over Windows Server licensing to proceed on an opt-out basis, opening the...

Microsoft is now set to face one of the most consequential cloud-pricing lawsuits ever brought in the UK, and the implications reach well beyond a single licensing dispute. A London tribunal has allowed a mass claim to proceed alleging that Microsoft overcharged British businesses for Windows...

Amazon’s latest Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) update is more than a routine feature add. By extending Windows Server licensing entitlements into EVS, AWS is making its VMware migration story materially more complete for enterprises that still run a large estate of Windows-based...

Microsoft now faces a landmark, potentially industry‑reshaping legal fight in the United Kingdom: a collective action accusing the company of using Windows Server licensing rules to penalize customers who run workloads on rival clouds — an approach that, claimants say, has the effect of steering...