Microsoft Licensing for Non-Microsoft Clouds
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Episode 4: Microsoft Licensing for Non-Microsoft Clouds
Microsoft licensing rules are written to favor customers that use Azure and penalize customers who run their Microsoft software on competitors’ cloud platforms, especially AWS, Google, and Alibaba. In this podcast, Mary Jo Foley and analyst Wes Miller discuss the extra licensing costs Microsoft customers face when they use non-Microsoft clouds to run their Microsoft workloads – including recent and upcoming rule changes that further increase the pressure to use Azure.
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Meet your host, Mary Jo Foley
Mary Jo Foley is the Editor in Chief at Directions on Microsoft. Before joining Directions, Mary Jo was the Editor of the "All About Microsoft" blog on ZDNET. She also was the co-host of the "Windows Weekly" podcast on the TWiT Network. She has been a technology journalist for 35+ years and has focused on covering Microsoft exclusively for the majority of her career.
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