Reuters | , Posted through Singh Rahul Sunilkumar
Alphabet’s Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-competitive cloud computing practices and criticized approaching offers with European cloud distributors, pronouncing those don’t remedy broader issues about its licensing phrases.
Google Cloud Vice President Amit Zavery steered EU antitrust regulators to take a more in-depth have a look at the problem. (ALSO READ: Microsoft to position ChatGPT AI style in Bing seek engine to problem Google)
Google Cloud’s first public feedback on Microsoft and its EU offers underscore the competition between the 2 US tech giants within the multi-billion-dollar cloud computing industry the place Google trails marketplace chief Amazon and second-ranked Microsoft.
“Microsoft definitely has a very anti-competitive posture in cloud. They are leveraging a lot of their dominance in the on-premise business as well as Office 365 and Windows to tie Azure and the rest of cloud services and make it hard for customers to have a choice,” Zavery informed Reuters in an interview overdue on Wednesday.
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“When we talk to a lot of our customers, they find a lot of these bundling practices, as well as the way they create pricing and licensing restrictions, make it difficult for them to choose other providers,” he stated.
He criticized Microsoft’s offers with smaller European cloud distributors.
Microsoft has presented to modify its cloud computing practices in a handle smaller competitors that during flip will droop their antitrust court cases, an individual with direct wisdom of the topic informed Reuters this week. The transfer would stave off an EU investigation.