The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) organization and Microsoft are in discussions to resolve "unfair software licensing for cloud infrastructure providers and their customers ...

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 ...

Microsoft has reached an agreement with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), nearly two years after the European not-for-profit trade association filed an antitrust complaint ...

CISPE invoked one of Europe's few cloud leaders in a spot of comparison, noting Google parent Alphabet has around 2,000-times ...

Other cloud providers, including Google and AWS, seem unhappy with the settlement, saying they hope regulators would continue to investigate Microsoft’s licensing practices. Microsoft has reportedly ...

CISPE, a trade body for infrastructure as a service cloud firms in Europe, issued a complaint Friday alleging that Microsoft's licensing terms for running its software products on alternative clouds ...

June 1 (Reuters) - European trade group CISPE denied a report on Saturday that it was nearing a settlement with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab to withdraw its antitrust complaint with the European ...

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Microsoft has struck a deal with a trade association for cloud providers that would allow its members to offer its software services under a pay-as-you-go model. Previously, the Cloud Infrastructure ...

CISPE's cloud investment is intended to give businesses a Euro choice that is "immune to disruption, access and potential removal by foreign actors.” A major European cloud provider organization has ...

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) is currently negotiating with the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to address a complaint lodged with the European Union regarding the tech ...

Microsoft was accused Friday of abusing the dominance of its Azure cloud computing unit to squeeze a — and, in some cases, evaporate — the profit margins of rival cloud platforms in Europe. The claim ...