Microsoft's licensing terms restrict European customers from moving their current Microsoft workloads to competitors' clouds - despite there being no technical barriers to doing so - or impose what Microsoft admits is a striking 400% price markup.
The settlements agreed with CISPE and its members do not fix the underlying market-wide licensing issues or solve the continued harm to EU customers.
Google pointed to research originally cited by CISPE that such tactics cost European businesses as much as €1 billion a year, stifle innovation, and cause security risks.
As highlighted by the massive security outage two months ago, Microsoft's lock-in tactics can result in significant risks and losses for European businesses.
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