CISPE

The CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that it approving Broadcom's $61B VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg :

Google, which joined the Open Cloud Coalition, denies its offer of €100M+ in incentives to CISPE was linked to CISPE's antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Paul Kunert / The Register : Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft

Google, which joined the Open Cloud Coalition, denies its offer of €100M+ in incentives to CISPE was linked to CISPE's antitrust complaint against Microsoft

El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive

Sources: Google offered CISPE ~€455M worth of Google Cloud licenses and €14M in cash on condition that CISPE maintain its antitrust complaint against Microsoft

- Cloud group rejected Google package to keep their EU case  — CISPE eventually reached antitrust settlement with Microsoft

Microsoft agrees to a deal to settle trade group CISPE's antitrust complaint, and to build a tool to let CISPE members run Microsoft software on their platforms

Microsoft and trade group CISPE agree a deal to settle CISPE's antitrust complaint; CISPE members can run software on Azure at prices equivalent to Microsoft's

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :

CISPE denies a report that it was nearing a settlement with Microsoft to withdraw its EU antitrust complaint about Microsoft's cloud licensing practices

Sources: Microsoft is discussing a deal with CISPE, which could include a multimillion-euro payment to get the cloud lobby to drop its EU antitrust complaint

Possible deal involves a multimillion-dollar payout to cloud association backed by Amazon.  —  Microsoft is closing …

Trade group CISPE, representing Amazon and 26 EU cloud providers, is working with Microsoft to try to resolve EU antitrust concerns over its licensing practices

Microsoft (MSFT.O) is in talks with CISPE in an attempt to resolve its European Union antitrust complaint about the U.S. software …