Technology giant Microsoft announced on Monday that it will implement the cloud computing changes from October 1.

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When the firm declared these changes in May, it did not reveal a date when the changes would be effectively implemented. However, after several complaints to the EU antitrust regulators related to the US software firm, Microsoft has ultimately announced to make the amends in licensing deals and other changes effective from October 1. The revised deals will let users use their licenses on any European cloud provider delivering services to their own data centres.


In a blog post on last Monday, Microsoft announced to implement key revisions and upgrades to its outsourcing and hosting terms that will benefit partners and customers all over the world.


The company has also said that it will introduce a new Flexible Virtualization features that will help expand customer choice when outsourcing. Microsoft will let customers with Software Assurance or subscription licenses to use their licensed software to build or install solutions and run them on any outsourcers' infrastructure. However, some rivals like Amazon, Alphabet's Google, Alibaba, and Microsoft's own cloud services will be excluded from the deals.


As mentioned above, Microsoft President Brad Smith had first announced the changes in May without revealing any plans about when these amends would be effectively implemented.


Also, Microsoft was previously fined EUR 1.6 billion by the European Commission for various infringements.