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Cloud group members find themselves free of Microsoft’s compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching their recent antitrust complaint.
End of support has been pushed back to October 2025 by Broadcom in a move that is likely to be welcomed by many VMware users.
Microsoft claims that a European Commission deal prevented them from making security changes that would have blocked the CrowdStrike update.
Two years after an ERP system should’ve been installed, Birmingham City Council are facing a £12 million bill for manually audited accounts.
The CMA had invited comments from rivals over the tie-up as part of broader concerns about dealmaking in the AI industry.
The prediction is a slight reduction on the previous quarter’s forecast of 8% growth, but sees an increase in overall spend to $5.26 trillion.
The lucrative package was filled with incentives in an unsuccessful attempt to convince CISPE members to reject a deal with Microsoft.
The A1 Plus academic licence, which gave teachers and pupils access to the Microsoft productivity suite, comes to an end in August.
More than 50% of organisations have an AI leader – but 88% indicate their AI leader does not have the title of ‘Chief AI Officer’.
The settlement will also see Microsoft reset its software pricing for CISPE members, refund them for lost revenues and evade an EU antitrust investigation triggered by the original complaint.
In a similar vein to what’s been seen with VMware, customers are finding themselves seeking alternatives as costs rise compared to perpetual.
Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams were pretty popular, it turns out – but they’ll start being retired within the next few weeks.
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