{"id":977804,"date":"2025-12-02T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977804"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:23:38","slug":"google-drops-its-first-ever-complaint-against-microsoft-with-eu-what-the-company-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/02\/google-drops-its-first-ever-complaint-against-microsoft-with-eu-what-the-company-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Google drops its first-ever complaint against Microsoft with EU: What the company said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has formally withdrawn its first-ever, long-standing antitrust complaint against rival Microsoft concerning its cloud computing practices in the European Union (EU). Google had originally filed the complaint with the European Commission (EC) last year, alleging that Microsoft was exploiting its dominant position in the Windows Server operating system to engage in anti-competitive practices that locked customers into its Azure cloud platform. The decision comes a week after EU regulators announced an investigation into the cloud market to determine if giants like Microsoft and Amazon should face new restrictions aimed at curbing their power.<\/p>\n<p>Google Cloud Europe head of government affairs, Giorgia Abeltino, confirmed the withdrawal while explaining the shift in strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has formally withdrawn its first-ever, long-standing antitrust complaint against rival Microsoft concerning its cloud computing practices in the European Union (EU). Google had originally filed the complaint with the European Commission (EC) last year, alleging that Microsoft was exploiting its dominant position in the Windows Server operating system to engage in anti-competitive practices that locked customers into its Azure cloud platform. The decision comes a week after EU regulators announced an investigation into the cloud market to determine if giants like Microsoft and Amazon should face new restrictions aimed at curbing their power. Google Cloud Europe head of government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}