Microsoft’s Cloud Business Targeted by EU Antitrust Regulators

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’s Cloud Business Targeted by EU Antitrust Regulators

EU antitrust regulators are quizzing

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’s rivals and customers about its cloud business and licensing deals, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed, in a move that could lead to a formal investigation and renewed scrutiny of the US software company.

The ********* Commission has fined

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a total EUR 1.6 billion (roughly Rs. 13431.2700 crore) in the previous decade for breaching EU antitrust rules and for not complying with its order to halt anti-competitive practices.

The company found itself on the EU competition enforcer’s radar again after ******* software provider NextCloud, France’s OVHcloud and two other companies filed complaints about

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’s cloud practices.

“The Commission has information that

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may be using its potentially dominant position in certain software markets to foreclose competition regarding certain cloud computing services,” the questionnaire said.

Regulators asked if the terms in

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’s licensing deals with cloud service providers allow rivals to compete effectively.

They also want to know if companies needed

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’s operating systems and productivity applications to complement their own cloud infrastructure offering in order to compete effectively.

Companies also were asked about the differences in license fees and commercial terms between the licensing deals with cloud service providers and another programme in which they package and indirectly resell

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’s cloud services together with their own.

Another focus was potential technical limitations on cloud storage services available on companies’ cloud infrastructure.

“We’re continuously evaluating how we can best support partners and make

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software available to customers across all environments, including those of other cloud providers,”

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said in an emailed statement.

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager earlier this week said she has no concerns yet about cloud computing and cited the competition from Europe’s Gaia-X initiative.

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