Microsoft offers patent troll defense for cloud customers | Reuters
Microsoft Corp has thought up another way to attract potential customers to its cloud computing service: deterrent against patent trolls.Companies new to the cloud are vulnerable to non-practicing entities, whoch do not make any products themselves but use their arsenal of broad technology patents to sue other firms in order to extract royalties or a cash settlement.The new offering could appeal to companies new to the cloud arena, needing a service such as Microsoft’s Azure to store their data or host their mobile app.It was not clear that it alone would be enough to draw customers away from the market leader, Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Web Services.Under a plan unveiled on Wednesday, Microsoft said customers of its cloud service could rely on any of 10,000 Microsoft patents free of charge to deter legal threats against them.
Källa: Microsoft offers patent troll defense for cloud customers | Reuters
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