Microsoft Faces Antitrust Probe In European Union Over Azure
Another day, another Microsoft news to hit the wire. After an expected yet surprising victory in EU over Activation-Blizzard acquisition, Microsoft hits another road. This time surrounding its Cloud Business - Azure. According to a Bloomberg report , EU's antitrust watchdog has opened an informal probe into Microsoft's Azure Cloud Platform over anti-competitive practices. It should be clarified that this probe has nothing to do with the recently concluded EU's probe into Microsoft's proposed Activision-Blizzard acquisition. Customers and competitors contacted by the EC have until May 16th to respond and have been asked to submit any non-confidential evidence of Microsoft’s abuses. This, Bloomberg says, indicates that the EC is close to announcing a formal investigation. According to EC: The commission has received several complaints regarding Microsoft, including in relation to its product Azure, which we are assessing ba