Microsoft is revising its licensing conditions to allow cloud service providers to better compete in response to complaints.
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president announced the changes.
Microsoft had been fined 1.6 billion euros by EU antitrust regulators for its anti- competitive licensing terms.
Microsoft wants to listen and act on the complaints, Smith said.
Smith said the changes include allowing cloud service providers to offer Windows as a complete deskstop operating system, providing longer-term price protection and revising licensing terms.
The company found itself on the EU competition enforcer’s radar again after German software provider NextCloud, France’s OVHcloud and two other companies filed complaints about Microsoft’s cloud practices.
