What you need to know
- Reportedly, Google has sent a letter to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), petitioning it to take action against business practices Microsoft uses in cloud computing that it views as anticompetitive.
- Specifically, Google argues that Microsoft should not be able to restrict the use of its softwares to Azure, and that it shouldn't cost more to use them with other cloud providers.
- Google included six recommendations in its letter, including a request to force Microsoft to make Azure more interoperable with other cloud providers and one to ensure that security updates won't be blocked for anyone who moves to a new one.
- The UK's communications regulator Ofcom found that Amazon and Microsoft owned a combined 70-80% of the UK cloud computing market in 2022 earlier this year, referring the situation to the CMA for investigation.
