Microsoft obtains a new extension: apparently it will be able to continue selling Windows 10 licenses to Huawei

We have lived a busy few months with American companies and half the world looking at the movements of the Trump administration. I see Huawei has brought many consequences of which the last chapter refers to the arrival of the Mate 30 and the doubts that are cast on the future Huawei P40.

The truth is that the positions for now are not defined in an unprecedented trade war between the United States and China. A war by chapters in which the last one refers to the extension that Huawei has been granted by the United States Department of Commerce.Movement that comes to be a breath of air to companies like Microsoft.

Admitted extension

Microsoft, like other companies that do business with Huawei, will thus be able to continue its relations with the Chinese company as long as they receive the authorization. And in the case of Microsoft, which does have permission, it will be able to continue licensing its operating system for Huawei equipment.

In this regard, any US company wishing to do business with Huawei must apply for a license from the US Department of Commerce Will be reviewed the same to decide if it is approved or denied. A tedious process in which of all the licenses received, more than 200, almost half, have been denied.

A movement not without controversy, as up to 15 senators have asked the Department of Commerce to stop issuing such licenses until clarifies the criteria by which they are issued approve or deny a license.

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This movement has also motivated a letter in which Microsoft thanks the movement carried out by its government, since not all companies have been authorized to continue maintaining their line of business with Huawei. In fact, according to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in an interview with Fox Business Network, We have had 290 applications for specific licenses ."

At the time we saw how Huawei laptops disappeared from the Microsoft Store and little by little, with the extension being effective, It seems that the situation has been returning to normal.

For now, with this approval and according to Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, Microsoft will be able to continue to offer its operating system, Windows 10 , to Huawei equipment that reaches the market.

Source | Fortune