Microsoft (MSFT) is facing a claim in Britian that thousands of businesses using cloud computing services provided by Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOGL) and Alibaba (BABA) may be paying higher license fees to use Windows Server software, Reuters’ Paul Sandle reports. Competition lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi has filed a case at Britain’s Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleging that British businesses and organizations could collectively be owed more than $1.27B in compensation, Sandle writes, arguing that M...

Britain's competition regulator will issue its provisional findings of its cloud computing investigation in January, rather than this month, according to a revised timetable published on Wednesday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating cloud computing, a market dominated by Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure and, to a lesser extent, Google Cloud Platform. It launched its investigation after Britain's media regulator Ofcom raised concerns that data transfer fees, volume discounts and other features of the market could be stopping customers from switching supplier or using multiple suppliers...

The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist recommends four works of non-fiction largely grouped around technological progress and its impact on society...