Cui bono?
In May, Microsoft President Brad Smith promised: “We will take to heart the first recommendation in the Fair Software Licensing Principles and will strive to craft revised licensing terms that are more clearly written, better enable customers to readily determine...
CISPE welcomes US Executive Order to Strengthen Privacy in Transatlantic Data Flows
CISPE welcomes US Government efforts to strengthen privacy protections in transatlantic data flows that will bring further clarity and confidence to cloud customers transferring personal information to the USA. Data protection and transparency are foundational values...
CISPE assessment of Microsoft’s proposals in its blogs on 29th August 2022
On 29th August Microsoft, after its admission of unfair practices last May, posted a series of blogs proposing ‘upgrades’ to its software licences in an effort to head-off looming competition investigations across Europe. As a preliminary assessment of the potential...
CISPE responds to Microsoft’s announcement of new European Cloud Initiative
Responding to Brad Smith’s announcement at the Bruegel event, CISPE Secretary General, Francisco Mingorance said: “We cannot rely on the goodwill or even the charity of any gatekeeper. Microsoft must abide by the law including competition law. It must make concrete...
Microsoft’s admission that licensing claims are valid begs immediate action
Microsoft has conceded in the Financial Times that there is validity in claims against it for unfair software licensing practices. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s President, also admitted to Bloomberg that “there definitely are some valid concerns.” But CISPE cannot believe...
CISPE Elects new President and Vice-President
Board thanks the out-going President, Alban Schmutz, for his contributions 1st April 2022. CISPE, the association of cloud infrastructure service providers in Europe today announced the election of a new President and three new appointments within its board. Stefano...
Third Complaint against Microsoft illustrates need for urgent action on abusive software licenses
Brussels. 17th March 2022. There has been a storm brewing for some time over the unfair use of software licenses by some legacy software publishers to control the cloud infrastructure market. The news broken by the Wall St Journal today merely highlights the need for...