Google has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Commission, accusing Microsoft of using licensing techniques to restrict competition in cloud solutions.
Microsoft's licensing terms require customers to pay a 'cloud tax' to switch to other cloud services, resulting in businesses and public sector organizations in Europe losing up to 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) annually.
This is not the first time Microsoft has faced accusations of such behavior in the cloud space, and while they have settled with other parties, Google is not satisfied with the changes Microsoft agreed to implement.
Google is calling on the European Commission to order Microsoft to change its behavior and believes that Microsoft's actions violate antitrust rules.