Microsoft Corp. has been sued in the U.K. over the way it licenses its software to customers of rival cloud providers. Maria Luisa Stasi, a market regulation expert, filed the complaint today with the ...

Jim Doe could very easily be you. He is a systems administrator at a large sales and service company with 5,000 employees, more than 100 software applications and dozens of branch offices. Business is ...

Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers' Updated A trade group of European cloud providers has claimed a small victory ...

Software audits are on the rise—a fact well-documented by Gartner. Software giants have long recognized that audits are a way to generate additional revenue, and vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM ...

The price hike in software licences and cloud-based services is no longer just an issue for IT asset managers. The increases are so large that the problem has become a board-level issue, warned ITAM ...

Software licensing audits—and any resulting fines—are a key piece of the software delivery model, and most enterprise sites have been subjected to audits by one or more vendors in the past 3 years. It ...