A London-based tribunal recently ruled that Microsoft must face a class-action lawsuit alleging the tech giant has set the wholesale pricing for its Windows Server software on competing cloud platforms at higher rates than on its own Azure service.
Competition lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi initiated the lawsuit on behalf of approximately 60,000 UK businesses, seeking damages of roughly $2.8 billion. Microsoft's apparent setting of higher wholesale prices for Windows Server is an anti-competitive business practice. What's more, the extra cost is passed on to the customers who choose to access the product from rival cloud platforms.
