UK antitrust suit hits Microsoft with claim for $1.25B in cloud fees damages

Microsoft is in the crosshairs of a U.K. competition class-action style lawsuit that’s seeking £1 billion (around $1.25 billion at current exchange rates) in damages. It revolves around accusations related to fees the software giant charged businesses and other organizations for licensing Windows Server when they were customers of rival cloud computing platforms.The suit, which was filed Tuesday in the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleges that customers of Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a ...