{"id":1004340,"date":"2026-04-23T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004340"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:04:51","slug":"microsoft-must-face-2-8-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-cloud-computing-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/microsoft-must-face-2-8-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-cloud-computing-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft must face $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: 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. <\/p>\n<p>Competition lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi is bringing the case on behalf of nearly 60,000 businesses \u200cthat run \u2060Windows Server \u2060on rival cloud platforms. Her lawyers have previously said the claim was worth up to 2.1 billion pounds ($2.8 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: 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 \u200cthat run \u2060Windows Server \u2060on rival cloud platforms. Her lawyers have previously said the claim was worth up to 2.1 billion pounds ($2.8 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}