Google has lodged a complaint against Microsoft to the EU antitrust regulators regarding competition in cloud processing services. They allege that Microsoft leverages its power in the software market to push customers to use Azure and employ tactics to lock them into their services.
Microsoft’s representatives argue that similar complaints have been settled with cloud providers in Europe before, so they believe Google’s complaint to the EU will have little impact.
Currently, Google’s cloud services hold a market share of 3rd place behind Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
TLDR: Google accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior in cloud services, claiming they use their market power to lock customers into Azure. Microsoft believes the complaint will have minimal impact as similar issues have been settled in the past with cloud providers in Europe. Google’s cloud services are currently ranked 3rd behind AWS and Azure.
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