Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging that Microsoft's software licensing policies are anti-competitive. The complaint claims that customers are being charged four times more to run Windows Server in non-Azure clouds.
Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging Microsoft software licensing policies are anti-competitive, including claims customers are being charged four times more to run Windows Server in non-Azure clouds.
"We believe this regulatory action is only way to end Microsoft vendor lock-in and for customers to have a choice and create a level playing field for competitors," he added."Microsoft strategy is simple. It leverages a software monopoly to lock customers into Azure.
"But as soon as Microsoft got into the cloud space and became serious about it, they started tying what you did with Windows Server to Azure, and they created a linkage between two unrelated products and made sure that customers are forced down the path of choosing Azure as the only place they can easily deploy the Windows Server," Zavery said.
"This, of course, creates a single attack surface and single point of failure, as you have seen with some of the issues recently withA customer who bought a Windows Server license in 2020"running it on premise or in their own datacenter" and later decided to use the cloud to deploy it had two options, the Google Veep said.
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