It alleges that Microsoft's software hinders competition by impeding its performance on other cloud services.Ī spokesperson for OVHcloud said, “Through abusing its dominant position, Microsoft undermines fair competition and limits consumer choice in the cloud computing services market."Ī Microsoft spokesperson declined to clarify whether the company had been alerted of the allegation but stated that European cloud firms are developing successful businesses with Microsoft technology. OVH filed the suit last summer but it was not previously reported on. According to persons familiar with the case, the complaint focuses on how Microsoft licenses its goods, such as its Office productivity suite, which may make it more expensive to utilize cloud services that compete with Microsoft's Azure cloud. The complaint was filed with the European Commission, the European Union's top competition authority, according to OVHcloud. Tech regulators have grown increasingly concerned with big tech regarding anti-trust issues and anticompetitive behavior, tax payment, privacy matters, data handling, and more. This would be a rare instance in which major state actors probe two tech giants from Silicon Valley to foil competitors. French cloud-computing company OVHcloudĪ French cloud computing firm OVH Groupe SAS has filed an antitrust lawsuit in Europe against Microsoft, adding to previous criticism of the company's competitive tactics at a time when other tech titans have been subjected to increased public scrutiny.ĭays ago, the European Union and the UK have opened formal antitrust investigations into whether Facebook's owner, Meta Platforms Inc., and Google sought to illegally cooperate in digital advertising.
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