Customers will also be allowed to buy licenses just for the virtual environment without the need to buy the physical hardware. It will revise licensing deals and allow customers to use their licenses on any European cloud provider delivering services to their own datacenters. Microsoft will help cloud providers to offer Windows and Office directly as part of a complete desktop solution that they can build on, sell and host on their infrastructure. So if there's a company that has a data center but wants to run solutions in its cloud PBX data center, we're creating more options for them to do so with our software, because that's what they've been asking for," he said. "It really starts by giving more options to European cloud providers. Microsoft wants to listen and act on the complaints, Smith said. He recounted the "extraordinary defeat" that Microsoft had faced in a challenge to the EU antitrust body in 2007 that had forced it to change.
Microsoft was taking the first step, but not the last, to address the concerns, Smith told a conference organised by think tank Bruegel in Brussels.
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The company found itself under the EU competition body's scrutiny again after German software provider NextCloud, France's OVHcloud (OVH.PA), Italian cloud service provider Aruba and a Danish association of cloud service providers complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's cloud practices. Microsoft was fined 1.6 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by EU antitrust regulators in the previous decade for various violations. software giant sought to dodge a lengthy EU antitrust probe into its cloud computing business. BRUSSELS, May 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) will revise its licensing deals and make it easier for cloud service providers to compete, its president Brad Smith said on Wednesday, as the U.S.
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