Exclusive: CISPE rejects Microsoft's offer to settle cloud licensing complaint
for software to be used in the cloud. CISPE responded at the time, saying if anything the changes added new"unfair practices to the list."
At heart, the issues include"unjustified and discriminatory bundling, tying, self-preferencing pricing and technical and economic lock-in" to"restrict choice." The practices are alleged to violateThe EC recently started asking cloud providers and their customers questions about Microsoft Azure, specifically about discriminatory pricing, the bundling of more products with the dominant Office suite, and how Microsoft uses data on its cloud service providers' customers.
Microsoft has tried to settle the case before the EU launches an official investigation, according to a spokesperson at CISPE. "It was a pretty paltry offer and very far short of anything we consent acceptance of," the trade group told."In principle, we are happy to settle it between us, but we have minimum requirements before we expect negotiations to go forward."
A separate joint complaint against Microsoft's claimed restrictive software licensing in the cloud was previously brought to the EU by OVHcloud, Aruba S.p.a, and the Danish Cloud Community in
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