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CMA cloud licensing: Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of ‘muddying’ anti-trust debate
Microsoft's response to the Competition and Market Authority's investigation into its cloud licensing practices sees it hit out at its cloud rivals for claiming its tactics are anti-competitive
This is in response to a concern flagged by the CMA that Microsoft’s licensing practices might force its rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to “meaningfully” raise their operating costs to such an extent that there is a risk of “genuine foreclosure”. Elsewhere in the response, Microsoft takes aim at AWS, GCP, the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade association and “others” for spreading misinformation about how its licensing practices could be allegedly having an adverse effect on competition in the market. CISPE has previously been a vocal opponent to Microsoft’s licensing practices, which it has repeatedly described as “unfair”, but the pair have called a truce of sorts in recent weeks.
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