The EU followed up with Microsoft Corp v the EU Commission, a decision, which forced Microsoft to release a version of Windows with no media player. The courts ruled against Microsoft in United States v Microsoft Corp, 2001. In the early 1990s, Novell complained that Microsoft gave its Office Suite an unfair advantage over WordPerfect software, and then in the later 1990s, rival browser makers complained Microsoft favored its Windows Explorer browser unfairly. The move in some ways echoes antitrust activities against Microsoft more than two decades ago which then focused on Microsoft using its operating system monopoly to privilege various software products. DCD has asked OVHcloud and Microsoft for more details.Īlthough OVHcloud is the first to break silence and reveal the complaint, the company has said that other as-yet-unnamed European parties are also involved The complaint alleges that this job is being made harder, because Microsoft's software is licensed in a way that makes it more expensive to use on other clouds than Azure, and also claims that the software doesn't perform so well on other clouds, according to the WSJ.
OVHcloud is establishing a position as a European alternative to cloud providers based in the US and China, promising that it will offer services that meet European privacy regulations, and European customers' preference to hold data locally, away from the reach of foreign security services. "According to the plaintiffs, through abusing its dominant position, Microsoft undermines fair competition and limits consumer choice in the cloud computing services market." "Several companies including OVHcloud are taking action to ensure a level playing field among cloud services providers operating in the European Digital Single Market, by filing a complaint with DG Competition of the European Commission against Microsoft," said a statement from OVHcloud. The complaint was apparently filed in summer 2021, but has only just been reported.
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