Google LLC today announced that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft Corp. with the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm. The move has to do with Windows Server.

Microsoft Corp. has been sued in the U.K. over the way it licenses its software to customers of rival cloud providers. Maria Luisa Stasi, a market regulation expert, filed the complaint today with the ...

ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment Microsoft's From Software Assurance (SA) ...

Microsoft’s response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into its cloud licensing practices has seen it accuse arch-rivals Amazon and Google of “muddying the waters” ...

Google tried to derail a Microsoft antitrust settlement over anticompetitive software licensing in the European Union by offering a $500 million alternative deal to the group of cloud providers behind ...

The claim alleges that "the software giant abused its market dominance and engaged in conduct that restricted competition to its new licenses from pre-owned licenses for Microsoft products. That ...

Microsoft operates two cloud regions in Brazil: one in Rio and another in São Paulo. In September 2024, the company said it would invest $2.7bn in expanding its cloud infrastructure in the country.

Switzerland’s COMCO has opened a preliminary probe into Microsoft licensing fees after complaints over steep price hikes.

‘We wanted to make sure that it’s very clear to our partners that we’re making clear bets with them to help them deliver on customer expectations,’ says Microsoft Chief Partner Officer Nicole Dezen. A ...

Microsoft is due to respond this week to the European Commission’s demand that it come up with more acceptable licensing terms for its workgroup server protocols or face a possible noncompliance fine ...