Microsoft hit with £2.1B lawsuit over cloud licensing
Microsoft is being sued in the UK for £2.1 billion, with almost 60,000 businesses claiming the company made it harder and more expensive to use Windows Server on rival cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud.
The lawsuit, led by lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi, says Microsoft's licensing changes pushed customers toward its own Azure service, and the lawsuit seeks £2.1 billion in damages.
What's happening now?
The case has landed at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal, where Stasi is asking for it to be certified as a group action.
Microsoft wants the case thrown out, arguing there's no clear way to measure losses and insisting its license model actually helps competition.
Meanwhile, regulators in the UK, EU, and US are already investigating Microsoft's cloud practices as part of a bigger push for fair play in tech.