Redmond hasn't budged on deals that make its wares cheaper on Azure, and regulators are circling
That complaint laid out how Microsoft discounts its own software when bundled with its own Azure cloud services – meaning it is more expensive to run Redmond’s wares in rival clouds. The Windows goliath tried to settle the case out of court last May. CISPE toldseems designed to ratchet pressure on Microsoft's lawyers to offer bigger concessions.
"The licensing restrictions on multi-session use of Microsoft software outside of Azure impose on CISPE members to provision 32 virtual machines – that is ten time more machines – to support the same number of users. Even with lower cost hardware the cost of supporting 32 users for a CISPE member is 2.5 times higher than what Microsoft charges."
CISPE members are similarly upset about the price of service provider license agreements, arguing Microsoft charges double digit percentages more to run SQL Server Enterprise licensing on non-Azure servers. Again, here's a table from CISPE advancing those claims.
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