Google denounced Microsoft before the European Commission for its cloud platform, Azure, because of restrictions in its licenses that prevent it from transferring content stored on its platform to competing clouds, even though there are no technical barriers to justify it.
Brussels, which launched a formal investigation into the computer giant last July for imposing ‘Teams’ on Office users, will now proceed to “analyze the complaint under normal procedures”, a spokesman for the community told Europa Press, who he did not want. Evaluate the complaint.
According to Google, Microsoft’s restrictive policies have “forced” some Windows Server customers to use Azure or pay a “400%” price increase to use cloud services from other competitors.
“This has significantly harmed European companies and governments: stifling competition, costing 1 billion euros a year and increasing the risk of organizations facing Microsoft’s inadequate security culture,” the company argued in a statement.
Google denied that Microsoft had already “trapped” Teams customers through years of repeated anti-competitive practices in the cloud and created “adverse effects” such as higher costs, at the expense of European companies. Taxpayers or “Restrictions on Distributors and Reseller Partners” for consumers.
Microsoft’s response
For its part, a Microsoft spokesperson warned that the company had previously resolved similar issues with other European cloud service providers, even after Google tried to pay these companies more than $500 “to continue litigation”. will equally fail to convince the Commission,” they hope.
