EU monopoly regulators probing complaints about Microsoft Azure
The latest to open up pertains to the Azure public cloud, specifically that Microsoft is using its market muscle to lock out rivals. As part of this, the EU is talking to other providers and customers about ways Microsoft could be abusing biz sensitive information gleaned from commercial agreements with other cloud competitors.
Microsoft has trading relations with hundreds of cloud service providers in the EU, and the competition regulators want to find out if Microsoft uses confidential data to win contracts. This sounds similar to tIn calendar Q1, Microsoft Azure hoovered up 26 percent of customer spending on infrastructure cloud computing services in Europe, demonstrating its dominant position in the region.
"Unsurprisingly, the topic of restrictive software licensing took center-stage at the onset of last week's FTC panel discussion," said Ryan Triplette, the executive director of the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing. "Any conversation regarding business practices impacting the future of the cloud must include the continued threats posed to customers by restrictive licensing terms – including tying, unclear use terms, vendor lock-in, and higher costs."
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