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Its website claims that customers can save up to 70 per cent on their software licences by buying used software.
ValueLicensing has filed a legal suit against Microsoft with the High Court in London claiming that the vendor has added clauses into contracts that block customers from reselling their licences, in exchange for discounts on its cloud-based products.
The clauses are coupled with non-disclosure agreements which seek to stifle the preowned licences market, ValueLicensing alleges.
The lawsuit alleges that these practices have been occurring since at least 2016 and has resulted in the firm losing £270m in gross profits.
ValueLicensing s lawsuit is also asking for the High Courts to take measures to fully restore and maintain competition and choice in the market by removing NDAs and addressing the Microsoft clauses in customer contracts.
British software reseller files £270 million antitrust court action against Microsoft
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British software reseller files £270 million antitrust court action against Microsoft
ValueLicensing alleges that Microsoft pressurises customers not to sell unused Windows and Office licences, to the detriment of the secondhand market
British software reseller files £270 million antitrust court action against Microsoft
Derby-based reseller ValueLicensing has filed a £270 million antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in the UK High Court, accusing the US firm of trying to kill competition in the secondhand software market.
ValueLicensing also calls for action to restore and maintain competition and choice in the market
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Updated Microsoft is being sued by UK reseller ValueLicensing for £270m in damages over claims of restrictive contractual practices and abuse of dominance.
The claim, filed in the UK s High Court in London, asserts that Microsoft stifled the supply of preowned Microsoft licences in the UK and EEA and added clauses into contracts that restrict customers reselling their licences (in return for a discount). The net result, alleges the Derby-based software reseller, has been higher prices and less choice for customers, who have been steered into cloud-based Office365 and Azure subscriptions.
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