By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2025-11-28 23:27:00
Google LLC has dropped an antitrust complaint that it filed in the European Union last year over Microsoft Corp.’s business practices.
The search giant announced the move today. The development comes a few days after the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, launched an antitrust probe into Microsoft. The investigation will scrutinize the company’s conduct in the public cloud market, which was also the focus of Google’s antitrust complaint.
Microsoft sells a version of Windows called Windows Server that is optimized for public cloud environments. Many enterprises use it to run Microsoft applications such as SQL Server. In 2019, the tech giant rolled out a major update to its terms of service for Windows Server installations that run on competing clouds.
Google’s antitrust complaint argued that the 2019 licensing change was anticompetitive. According to the company, the update made it more expensive to run Windows Server on Google Cloud than on Microsoft’s…
