Complaint filed against Microsoft claims that the company discounts its own software when bundled with Azure cloud services, making it more expensive to run on rival clouds. The complaint highlights the pricing disparity and potential loss of sales for competing providers.
That complaint laid out how Microsoft discounts its own software when bundled with its own Azure cloud services – meaning it is more expensive to run Redmond’s wares in rival clouds . The Windows goliath tried to settle the case out of court last May. CISPE toldseems designed to ratchet pressure on Microsoft 's lawyers to offer bigger concessions.
CISPE told us it used the Azure Pricing Calculator to highlight the pricing disparity at the heart of the issue – see the table below, provided by CISPE.It shows, if CISPE is right, that even if a member of the cloud association – a rival of Azure – can offer remote desktop virtual machines at lower cost per hour than Microsoft, the red-tape put in place by Redmond leaves the competing provider worse off for customers in terms of price comparison, causing the rival to potentially lose sales to Azure. "According to the Azure Pricing Calculator with the multi-session capabilities allowed on Azure, a customer can run a typical virtual desktop implementation supporting 32 users using just three virtual machines," the group explaine
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