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A case seeking compensation for approximately 59,000 businesses and organisations using the Microsoft Windows Server operating system in non-Microsoft public clouds is going ahead. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled to certify a £2bn legal action against Microsoft over its cloud computing and software practices. The collective action court case, brought by digital markets regulation expert Maria Luisa Stasi, accuses Microsoft of overcharging UK businesses and organisations that use its Windows Server on rival cloud services. CAT dismissed Microsoft’s arguments against certification and granted a Collective Proceedings Order on an opt-out basis, allowing the case to head to…

The UK government has declared its intention to modernise payment services regulation, updating it to support innovations in money and payments, according to an HM Treasury statement. It is also set to publish a consultation inviting feedback from the payments sector. Lucy Rigby, economic secretary to the HM Treasury, said: “Fintech is a true British success story, and we are backing the industry to maintain its competitive edge and go even further and faster in driving growth. Rigby will attend events during Fintech Week in London to promote the government’s efforts in maintaining the UK as the leading destination…

Generated by OpenAI/ChatGPT A UK tribunal has cleared a £2.1 billion collective lawsuit against Microsoft to proceed to trial, keeping fresh pressure on the company over how it prices key software for customers running workloads outside Azure. The case centers on Windows Server licensing and whether Microsoft made rival clouds more expensive for business users. Reuters reported that the claim is being brought on behalf of nearly 60,000 UK businesses and alleges Microsoft overcharged customers using Windows Server on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud. The argument is that Microsoft’s licensing structure made Azure look cheaper by raising…

Microsoft’s regular monthly round of vulnerability fixes dropped as scheduled on Tuesday 14 April, containing a handful of zero-days and critical updates for security teams to pore over. So far, so normal. But this month’s Patch Tuesday was rather more notable then many other recent updates because it was, by some margin, the second-largest update in history by volume, comprising over 160 distinct flaws – October 2025 saw 175 – and rising to nearly 250 once third-party and Chromium updates were taken into account. Almost immediately, commentators rushed to invoke the unavoidable spectre of artificial intelligence (AI). Vulnerability expert…

Egypt is quickly repositioning itself in global IT outsourcing as businesses revise sourcing in response to geopolitical shifts, talent shortages, and the rise of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI-)driven models. Viewed as a secondary delivery location, the country is now gaining traction among both multinational service providers and smaller, specialist consultancies. This shift from a peripheral role to a significant player is being driven by market forces and changing industry needs. Industry observers point to a marked acceleration over the past 18 months, with new entrants establishing delivery centres and expanding local hiring pipelines. For Ahmed (Kal) El Kalagy,…

Usage–based pricing is the model the IT industry has adopted to deliver software as a service (SaaS). But as Griff Parry, CEO and cofounder of m3ter points out, software is changing. He says: “You’re seeing massive innovation in software.” This, he says, is pushing IT providers to reconsider how best to price software. “In the software and tech world there is a dynamic environment for pricing design,” he says.  Parry says IT firms should always aim to make pricing of their products and services as value-based as possible, which is a shift from the cost-based approach traditionally associated with software…

According to a survey from Red Hat, 87% of UK business IT decision-makers use agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems, yet only a quarter of them have strong governance in place. Currently, Red Hat claims that companies feel they do not have enough control over data, infrastructure and relationships with AI providers. Instead, their survey respondents seem to want governments to put in place stronger AI policies for industries. Run by Censuswide, the survey questioned 500 IT decision-makers across the UK, France, Germany and Italy about AI sovereignty. The supplier concludes that there exists a control “gap” at organisations between…

Service provider Blackbox Hosting has consolidated storage from two full racks down to just 8U of rack space following migration to Everpure FlashArray hardware. The move has allowed the provider to deliver “sovereign” cloud services with a 10:1 data reduction ratio and an 85% reduction in power utilisation. Blackbox Hosting evolved over 14 years from a single rack to supporting more than 1,500 virtual machines (VMs), and has datacentre capacity at Canary Wharf with a secondary site in Slough. The company operates a fully managed, sovereign (see box) model for major software suppliers including Iris Software Group, which supports…

The UK is facing a “perfect storm” in cyber security as attacks driven by hostile states, combined with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), create new risks to UK infrastructure, the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will warn on Tuesday. Hostile nation states are now directly or indirectly responsible for the majority of “nationally significant” cyber security attacks against the UK, running at an average of four per week, Richard Horne, CEO of the NCSC, is expected to say. A combination of technological change and rising geopolitical tension is creating “tumultuous uncertainty”, as well as opportunities…

What small objects around your house make you smile? A funny mug? A striped vase? A framed receipt? Here are 14 home jollifiers from MoMA Design Store, one of our all-time favorite shops… How cute are these tea light houses? When candles burn inside, the windows glow, and you can see the light flickering on the wall, which feels especially cozy at night. This Danish glass jug brightens up our coffee table. I like that it makes a regular afternoon snack feel like a beautiful moment, and I always pull it out when friends or relatives stop by. This Kartell…