- Microsoft responded to the AMC’s provision decision report
- He maintains that British customers have not submitted that many complaints
- AWS does not play ball, and Google speaks “on both sides of its corporate mouth”
Microsoft, who has apparently found himself in the center of countless antitrust surveys in recent years, has retaliated with comments made in relation to a UK CMA survey.
The technology giant has challenged the provisional competition and market decision report (CMA), arguing that it is based on hypothetical concerns rather than real market conditions.
Microsoft has published an official response of 101 pages to tackle all aspects of the CMA survey, even saying that British customers have raised “limited” complaints and suggesting that the body has reacted excessively.
Microsoft questions the CMA survey
“We are particularly concerned about its deactivation of Microsoft and its accusation that Microsoft unfairly uses some of its software products to prevent Amazon and Google Cloud web services from effectively competing with British customers,” the company wrote.
In the letter, the technology giant has even criticized its main hyperscalor rival, AWS, so as not to share its own software with Microsoft “or someone else” – the AWS critical response to believe that it can concede to Microsoft software “for its own advantage and favorable terms”.
Microsoft then condemned Google to “speak on both sides of his corporate mouth”, boasting of both his “incredible momentum in the cloud company” and mocking Microsoft’s growth at the same time.
Turning its attention to artificial intelligence, Microsoft noted that cloud computors suppliers should invest $ 250 billion on a global scale to respond to AI intensification requests, arguing that the AMC has ignored the relevance of technology.
The company has also noted IT and its competitors have already taken measures to counter antitrust surveys, in particular by removing exit costs for customers who go from a cloud computing supplier to 12 months ago. The company rejected the exit costs as a major concern, claiming that the lack of mass migration after the withdrawal of the costs proves that it did not have a significant impact on the decisions of customers in the first place.
Microsoft wrapped himself by concluding that he was an “important investor” in the British economy for four decades, urging the AMC to walk carefully to avoid “weakening[ing] One of the most dynamic and highly growing industries in the United Kingdom. »»
For the future, all parties have until April 2025 to submit their answers. The CMA should make a final decision by July 2025, before the deadline for August.
Techradar Pro asked the CMA to share other comments, but we did not receive an immediate response.
