Microsoft calls out Google for ‘shadow campaigns’ in Europe in cloud

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calls out

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for ‘shadow campaigns’ in Europe in cloud

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CEO Sundar Pichai and

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CEO Satya Nadella

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took the unusual step on Monday of publicly criticizing longtime rival

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for running “shadow campaigns” in Europe designed to discredit the software giant with regulators.

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lawyer Rima Alaily wrote in a

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that

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hired a firm to recruit ********* cloud companies to represent the search company’s case.

“This week an astroturf group organized by

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is launching,”

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lawyer Rima Alaily wrote in a

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. “It is designed to discredit

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with competition authorities, and policymakers and mislead the public.

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has gone through great lengths to obfuscate its involvement, funding, and control, most notably by recruiting a handful of ********* cloud providers, to serve as the public face of the new organization.”

The conflict represents a fresh battle between two companies that do battle in cloud infrastructure as well as online advertising and productivity software. The latest chapter surfaces as

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faces heightened regulatory pressure in Europe and in the U.S., where it’s in the midst of its second antitrust trial against the Justice Department.

Alaily suggested in Monday’s post that

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hired advisory firm DGA Group to set up the Open Cloud Coalition. One company that opted not to participate in the group told

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that the coalition would receive financial backing from

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and criticize

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’s practices in Europe, Alaily wrote.

Alaily linked to a

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for the Open Cloud Coalition. The overview in the attached document says the consortium was “being formed to advocate for a fair, competitive and open cloud services industry across the *** and EU.”

DGA Group representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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didn’t immediately provide a comment.

Last month,

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said it was

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a complaint against

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with the EU’s executive body, the ********* Commission, over what

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considers unfair practices for licensing the Windows Server operating system.

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says on its

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that clients can save an average of 36% when they use Windows Server on

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’s cloud instead of on

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Web Services.

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leads the cloud infrastructure market over

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and

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Alaily said

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has established a pattern of going after

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.

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funded the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing that last year asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to

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, Alaily wrote. And she said

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offered around $500 million to members of another group, Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, if they would ******* a proposed antitrust settlement regarding

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. The case was ultimately

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in July.

WATCH:

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Cloud exec says

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is in violation of EU antitrust laws

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