Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

The Register
Jul 13, 2026, 4:30 am244 ptsTop
OPINION In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-prem Office and Windows licenses, and made a fairy tale argument in court to make it so. Our hero did not get…

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