Microsoft is facing legal battle in UK over a case that it previously dismissed

Software giant Microsoft is reportedly facing a legal case in the UK over alleged unfair cloud licensing practices. Competition lawyer Dr Maria Luisa Stasi has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of over charging UK organisations to run Windows Server on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and other rival cloud platforms. Notably, the case was originally filed in December 2024. Microsoft then dismissed the case as “an opportunistic attempt by a law firm and its private funders to piggy-back on baseless complaints Google has made and which we’ve all addressed or rebutted.”

What the lawsuit alleges