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BRUSSELS: Microsoft on Wednesday (May 18) said it was loosening its licensing requirements with cloud companies as it seeks to fight off regulators after growing complaints of monopolistic pra

Microsoft on Wednesday said it was loosening its licensing requirements with cloud companies as it seeks to fight off regulators after growing complaints of monopolistic practices.

At the heart of the controversy is a 2019 decision that made it more expensive for cloud companies to access Microsoft's Office 365 when they were running through data centres operated by rivals, such as Amazon or Alibaba. They also said the user experience was made worse and that there are incompatibilities with certain other Microsoft products when not running on Azure, the company's own data operating system.

Smith insisted that the changes were a"first step" and that"we probably have some more things that we're going to need to do."

 

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