Microsoft, fined by the European antitrust in 2010 for a total of 1.6 billion, “will address all the problems highlighted by the Brussels authority”. The president of the company, Brad Smith, said Wednesday.
The company will implement “some changes to try to allay all concerns of the authority,” Smith said at a conference organized by the think tank Bruegel in Brussels: “We will start by giving more options to European cloud providers, starting with the possibility of performing some operations in their cloud data centers”, reasoned the manager.
Smith said the changes include the ability for cloud service providers to offer Windows as a full operating system, providing long-term pricing protection and reviewing policies. license terms. The company found itself on the radar of the EU competition regulator again after German software provider NextCloud, France’s OVHcloud and two other companies filed complaints about Microsoft’s cloud practices.