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Microsoft must face $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences
YahooApr 21, 2026
Microsoft must face a mass lawsuit alleging it overcharged thousands of British businesses to use Windows Server software on cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and Alibaba, a London tribunal ruled on Tuesday. Competition lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi is bringing the case on behalf of nearly 60,000 businesses that run Windows Server on rival cloud platforms. They argued at a hearing last year that the businesses were overcharged because Microsoft charges higher wholesale prices for Windows Server than for users of Azure, costs that are passed on to customers and make Azure cheaper than Amazon's AWS or Google Cloud.
