Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On the afternoon of March 30, Beijing time, it is reported that Amit Zavery, vice president of Google's cloud business, criticized the anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft's cloud computing business today and said he had complained the problem to EU antitrust regulators, hoping they would launch a more in-depth investigation.

This is also the first time that Google has publicly commented on Microsoft's cloud computing behavior. In response to some of the deals Microsoft is about to reach with European cloud service providers, Zaffrey believes the deals will not address broader concerns about Microsoft's license terms. To this end, Google has raised this issue with EU antitrust authorities and urged the EU to conduct a thorough investigation.

In response, Microsoft referred to a blog post published by the company last May. At the time, Brad Smith, Microsoft president, said Microsoft ranked second in cloud services, with a slightly more than 20 per cent share of the global cloud services market (based on revenue).

A Microsoft spokesman said: "We are committed to promoting the development and success of the cloud community in Europe."

Microsoft and Google are engaged in a fierce competition in the multibillion-dollar cloud computing market. Currently, Google's share of the market lags behind Amazon and Microsoft.

Microsoft has reached preliminary agreements with smaller European cloud competitors to adjust its cloud computing practices, which in turn will withdraw their previous antitrust complaints, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Obviously, Microsoft's move is to avoid an investigation by the European Union. In March last year, Microsoft's cloud computing business was complained by three European competitors that Microsoft undermined fair competition in the cloud computing service market and limited consumers' choices. These competitors say Microsoft's contracts and business practices make its cloud computing services expensive.

"Microsoft has definitely taken a very anti-competitive attitude in cloud computing," Zaffrey said in an interview today. "they are taking advantage of the dominance of Office 365 and Windows to bundle its Azure with other cloud services, making it difficult for customers to make choices."

"many of our customers say that Microsoft Cloud has bundled sales and restrictions on price and licensing, which makes it difficult for them to choose other suppliers," Zaffrey said. "

Zaffrey also said Microsoft would only benefit from individual deals with several smaller European cloud providers. "they are selectively buying out those who complain, rather than making these terms available to everyone," Zaffrey said. "

"my view of regulators is that they should look at the issue as a whole, and even if one or two suppliers may reach a settlement, it will not solve the broader problem," Zaffrey said. "

Finally, Zaffrey refuted the claim that "this issue is just a quarrel between Google and Microsoft." "it's not a question of whether it has anything to do with Google, it's a question of the cloud," he said. The cloud allows you to deploy software in an open and flexible way, giving customers more choices and making it easier to run it anywhere. "

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