Company still remains under the microscope in Spain as a startup association presses ahead with its complaint.
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Microsoft has realized that every cloud, not just Microsoft Azure, has a silver lining, and that many clients use other cloud services, so it makes sense not to limit their market, UK-based analyst Phil Brunkard said today.
Brunkard, executive counselor at Info-Tech Research Group, UK, was reacting to recent news that the company had reached an agreement with French cloud provider OVHcloud that led to the dropping of an anti-trust complaint that had been filed with European Union regulators. On July 11, there was a similar announcement, this time with the Association of Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers (CISPE).
The cloud vendors first raised concerns in 2022, after they said their customers were “asked to pay more to run Microsoft software in non-Microsoft cloud environments, under what they saw as restrictive cloud licensing policies.”
In March 2023, the company reportedly…