European Regulators Raise Questions About Microsoft Cloud Practices
Officials have sent questionnaires to Microsoft rivals and partners asking about possible anti-competitive practices
European regulators are looking into allegations of anti-competitive behavior at Microsoft.
Photographer: Chona Kasinger/BloombergEuropean regulators are asking Microsoft Corp. partners and rivals for information related to a complaint made against the software maker alleging anti-competitive behavior in the cloud-computing services market.
The European Commission in March circulated a questionnaire, seen by Bloomberg News, focusing on how Microsoft licenses its products. The questions may lead to a formal inquiry, and follows an antitrust complaint last year from France’s OVH and two other cloud providers to the European Union’s antitrust watchdog over Microsoft’s behavior.