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Can you name a business that doesn't offer you a discount commensurate to the amount you spend with them? Why wouldn't Microsoft give you a discount on your wi
by tw04 7y ago
Can you name a business that doesn't offer you a discount commensurate to the amount you spend with them? Why wouldn't Microsoft give you a discount on your windows license if you're also using their cloud?
- femto113 7y agoThis practice is a form of "bundling" in the antitrust sense, and while it is not inherently illegal different rules apply to such behaviors if you've been found to have monopoly powers.
- kerng 7y agoIt is not - it would be if they had a monopoly, but they clearly don't in this case.
- femto113 7y agoThey do have a monopoly on Windows licenses, and they are trying to leverage that to sell cloud hosting of Windows servers, which they do not have a monopoly on. In this case Microsoft's defense would probably be "Windows is not the only OS available", which may or may not be accepted by a government (it's gone both ways for them in the past).
- kerng 7y agoThe right question is if Windows Server has a monopoly - and the answer is no. Even in Azure more then 50% of servers run Linux.