Google’s offer was conditional on CISPE maintaining its EU antitrust complaint into Microsoft’s allegedly abusive activities, and was also boosted by about €6mil (RM30.57mil) in financial contributions from Amazon Web Services, as part of its ongoing partnership with the association, the people said. But the offer didn’t sway CISPE’s membership, which includes a swathe of European firms. — AFP
Google offered a group of European Union-based cloud firms a package worth about €470mil (RM2.39bil) in a failed attempt to derail their antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp that freed the US software giant from a potentially costly EU case.
Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, or CISPE, last week ditched a complaint at the EU’s antitrust arm over Microsoft’s software licensing processes after brokering a deal to get fairer access to the US firm’s technologies. CISPE had previously argued Microsoft made it too difficult for customers to change cloud providers by tying its business software to its Azure cloud services.
