are quizzing Microsoft’s rivals and customers about its cloud business and licensing deals in a move that could lead to a formal investigation and renewed scrutiny of the US software company..6-billion in the previous decade for breaching EU antitrust rules and for not complying with its order to halt anticompetitive practices.
Regulators asked if the terms in Microsoft’s licensing deals with cloud service providers allow rivals to compete effectively. They also want to know if companies needed Microsoft’s operating systems and productivity applications to complement their own cloud infrastructure offering in order to compete effectively.