Google-parent Alphabet on Wednesday filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging that Microsoft has engaged in anti-competitive practices to lock customers into its cloud computing platform. Google stock rose a fraction while Microsoft stock dipped fraction amid the news.
"For years, in the productivity software space, Microsoft has locked customers into Teams, even when they preferred other providers," said Google Cloud Vice President Amit Zavery, in a blog. "Now, the company is running the same playbook to push companies to Azure, its cloud platform."
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He added: "Microsoft's licensing terms restrict European customers from moving their current Microsoft workloads to competitors' clouds – despite there being no technical barriers to doing so."
CISPE, a European trade body for the cloud computing sector, in July agreed to a settlement with Microsoft, which agreed to make changes to address competition concerns.
Amazon Web Services, part of Amazon.com, Microsoft and Google are the three biggest providers of cloud computing services.
On the stock market today, Google stock rose a fraction to 162.74. Microsoft stock also gained fraction to 430.99.
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