Microsoft signed a truce today with cloud providers that sees them get paid to drop a complaint to European Union antitrust regulators. Cloud association CISPE, which is backed by Microsoft’s cloud rival Amazon, said it agreed the settlement deal on Wednesday afternoon. This effectively ends a two-year row over Microsoft’s licensing practices that cloud companies argue have locked in customers of Microsoft’s ubiquitous office software.
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