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Rivals Slam Microsoft Over Licence Change

Cloud rivals AWS and Google hit out at Microsoft's changes to its licence agreements, calling them anti competitive and not fair to customers

US communication regulator has officially revoked and terminates the license of China Telecom to provide services in the United States

Mass purge of unlicensed gaming apps on Apple's Chinese app store, ahead of local law requiring publishers to obtain licence

Ability of Chinese teleco to provide communication and data services between US and China could be jeopardy amid review of approval

Huawei has yet to engage with any US firm over its offers to licence its 5G tech to ease national security concerns

Legal

Antitrust response. Android apps such as Chrome, Gmail etc will require device makers in Europe to pay licence fee

Cloud

Big Blue opts to licence a range of ARM designs for use in its networking and communications systems

Microsoft reveals it has sold 100 million Windows 8 licences as it seeks to strike an optimistic tone for the OS

Microsoft has performed an abrupt u-turn over its restrictive licensing policy for Office 2013

Cloud

A survey of British SAP users has revealed that many are unhappy over licensing complexity and lack of flexibility

One in four UK computer users have installed unlicensed software, says BSA