

This will make European Cloud Providers more competitive by enabling them to better serve customers.īefore turning to the details, I think it’s important at the outset to acknowledge that these steps are very broad but not necessarily exhaustive. The second, which implements one of these principles, is a new initiative to support European Cloud Providers so they can more easily host a wider variety of Microsoft products on their cloud infrastructure.These principles, shown below and explained later in this blog, will guide all aspects of our cloud business, enhance transparency for the public, and help us to better support Europe’s technology needs.

The first is a set of five European Cloud Principles that Microsoft is adopting to run our cloud business across Europe.We’re announcing two closely related initiatives today: I just finished an event in Brussels where I discussed our changes, and I wanted to share our steps more broadly in this blog. We thought it was important to start taking meaningful action within weeks, rather than months or years, and we set a goal internally to do so by today, a day when I’m in Brussels. As I said to journalists then, we felt that “while not all of these claims are valid, some of them are, and we’ll absolutely make changes soon to address them.” As a major technology provider, we recognize our responsibility to support a healthy competitive environment and the role that trusted local providers play in meeting customers’ technology needs.
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You may have read last month in news reports about concerns raised in Europe about some of Microsoft’s software licensing practices that impact competing cloud providers.
