By Maria Júlia Baumert ( May 12, 2026, 19:50 GMT | Comment) -- Brazilian cloud clients, integrators and rival providers largely agree on one conclusion in the early stages of Brazil’s probe into Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices: Microsoft‑dependent workloads show little propensity to be switched to other providers, even in response to price increases, reflecting high migration costs and entrenched technological dependencies. How various market actors interpret this rigidity from a competition standpoint, however, diverges. Brazilian cloud clients, integrators and rival providers largely agree on one conclusion in the early stages of Brazil’s probe into Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices: Microsoft‑dependent workloads show little propensity to be switched to other providers, even in response to price increases, reflecting high migration costs and entrenched technological dependencies....
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