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Microsoft Faces $1.27 Billion Antitrust Lawsuit Over Cloud Services in U.K.

The suit was filed on Tuesday with the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal by Scott+Scott

Microsoft has come under pressure from competing cloud companies in recent years over how it offers its own software to business users.
Microsoft has come under pressure from competing cloud companies in recent years over how it offers its own software to business users. Photo: denis charlet/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Microsoft faces a 1 billion pound ($1.27 billion) dispute in the U.K. over how it charges customers who buy cloud software services that rival its own Azure, the latest antitrust challenge to the U.S. tech giant’s approach to licensing.

The lawsuit brought on behalf of multiple parties by litigation specialist firm Scott+Scott alleges that Microsoft is leveraging its dominance in must-have computer operating systems and unfairly charging business customers more if they purchase its Windows Server and use it with the tech giants’ main rivals’ cloud platforms.

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