European antitrust watchdogs sniff around Microsoft cloud licensing deals

The European Commission is starting to gently probe allegations against Microsoft of anti-competitive practices in the cloud computing industry as it pertains to the company’s licensing rules. A questionnaire seen by newswires Bloomberg and Reuters was dispatched last month and follows multiple complaints from local providers …

[Fred Daggy]

Will they also look at Oracle Cloud and the favourable terms they give clients with regard to things like Java?

Just to compare Apples and Apples.

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

Has anyone complained? That's the key point with the EU I think, someone has to complain.

Still, I don't expect much will come from the Micros~1 probe for a very long time, and even then it'll be too little, too late. No more than a slap on one of the many tentacles MS uses to abuse its market position.