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Microsoft, Amazon fire back at UK antitrust regulator's cloud concerns

By Andrew Boyce ( February 28, 2025, 15:58 GMT | Insight) -- Microsoft has hit back at a provisional UK antitrust decision that found competition concerns in the cloud computing market, saying it wrongly singles out the company’s software licensing practices and ignores how markets are being upended by AI. Amazon said the CMA had wrongly recommended “unwarranted intervention” against only itself and Microsoft despite cloud being “one of the most competitive, well-functioning, and fast-growing sectors of the UK economy.” Google welcomed the findings.Microsoft has hit back at a provisional UK antitrust decision that found competition concerns in the cloud computing market, saying it wrongly singles out the company’s software licensing practices and ignores how markets are being upended by artificial intelligence....

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