EU antitrust regulators are looking for a formal investigation and renewed scrutiny of the US software company Microsoft, after German software provider NextCloud, France's OVHcloud and two other companies filed complaints about Microsoft's cloud practices.
The European Commission has fined Microsoft a total EUR 1.6 billion in the previous decade for breaching EU antitrust rules and for not complying with its order to halt anti-competitive practices.
In a statement, Microsoft said, “We're continuously evaluating how we can best support partners and make Microsoft software available to customers across all environments, including those of other cloud providers.”
Regulators asked if the terms in Microsoft's licensing deals with cloud service providers allow rivals to compete effectively. They also want to know if companies needed Microsoft's operating systems and productivity applications to complement their own cloud infrastructure offering in order to compete effectively.
Companies also were asked about the differences in license fees and commercial terms between the licensing deals with cloud service providers and another programme in which they package and indirectly resell Microsoft's cloud services together with their own.
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