Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax'
Google is very publicly adding to the chorus of complaints about Microsoft's alleged restrictive cloud software licensing policies, claiming that unless the European Union formally tackles it, the industry and customers will suffer lasting damage.
"Microsoft publicly touts that if you run their software on Azure versus other vendors like AWS and GCP, it's five times cheaper or it's more expensive to run on us 5x basically because of the tax customers have to pay to Microsoft," Zavery told us. If you want to run it on any other cloud provider, you have to pay a tax and penalty to Microsoft ... That is a big issue because all enterprises have a large footprint of Microsoft products like Office and Windows, SQL Server and others
"It shows you how much pull they have, that is the cost to customers, because they don't have a choice," he toldWe spent some time in recent weeks collecting the thoughts of various sources across the industry on Microsoft's tactics, and many wanted to remain anonymous for fear of upsetting the IT giant. Some feared soft tactics being wielded against them by the Windows maker, such as discounts evaporating or the compliance team calling, if they spoke out.
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