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Microsoft offers concession permitting customers to run Office software in AWS cloud
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Microsoft offers concession permitting customers to run Office software in AWS cloud

Microsoft is extending a minor concession, granting customers with specific licenses the ability to run Office products within an AWS cloud environment.

The move partially reverses a policy change made in 2019, which required customers with perpetual licenses to purchase new licenses if they wanted to run those applications on AWS, Google Cloud or ...

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