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Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business

A trade association of mostly European cloud providers and Amazon Web Services has filed an application to"actively participate" in a probe by Germany's competition watchdog to examine the dominance of Microsoft.it was considering whether Microsoft posed a threat to other businesses in the country's digital ecosystem. It highlighted that Microsoft's portfolio spans OSes, productivity software, cloud services, gaming, social media and more.

Now the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe trade group – which has already filed a complaint against Microsoft with the EU for alleged abuses relating to Azure – is broadening the fight to get involved with affairs in Germany. If the application is approved, CISPE can ask for access to the file, comment, and more closely track the proceedings.

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