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The European Union is moving toward treating Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act “gatekeepers” after opening cloud market investigations in Brussels on November 18, 2025, with stakeholder roundtables scheduled for July 1, 2026. The decision is not merely another...

The European Commission is expected as early as this week to issue preliminary findings that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure qualify as cloud “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, extending Europe’s platform competition regime from consumer apps into enterprise infrastructure. The...

European regulators have opened cloud-focused competition investigations into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services while advancing a Cloud and AI Development Act that would steer Europe’s most sensitive public-sector workloads toward EU-controlled providers. The move is not merely another...

The European Commission is reportedly preparing preliminary findings as soon as the week of June 22, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure likely qualify as cloud “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, setting up possible new EU restrictions by year’s end. This is not just...

Microsoft’s AI boom is forcing the company to lean on outside cloud capacity in June 2026, while European regulators are examining whether Azure should face Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules and investors are pressing securities claims over Copilot and Azure disclosures. The awkward lesson is...

On November 18, 2025, the European Commission opened three Digital Markets Act market investigations into cloud computing, including probes into whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as gatekeepers despite missing the DMA’s automatic thresholds. That is the dry...

Microsoft is reportedly testing Windows 11 changes in June 2026 that would let users disable Bing-powered web results inside Windows Search, most likely as part of a broader European Digital Markets Act compliance push around defaults, browsers, search providers, and bundled Microsoft services...

On 18 November 2025, the European Commission opened three Digital Markets Act investigations into cloud computing, including two probes into whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be treated as gatekeepers in the European Union. The move is not merely another Brussels skirmish...

Microsoft’s latest move in the United Kingdom is a reminder that its AI strategy is no longer being judged only as product design. It is now being tested as a competition and market-structure question, with the Competition and Markets Authority preparing a fresh probe into the company’s broader...

You can make Windows 11 behave like an EEA-installed PC and finally uninstall Microsoft Edge and Bing — without installing a sketchy debloat script — by flipping a little-known region switch that Microsoft uses to decide whether to apply the European Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules to your...

Advocate General Athanasios Rantos told Europe’s top court on February 26, 2026 that the European Commission’s sweeping document demands in its probes of Facebook are lawful, proportionate and properly safeguarded—an opinion that, if adopted by the Court of Justice, will hand regulators a major...

Google’s Chrome is quietly testing a native Windows 11 toast that tells users when “Chrome is no longer your default browser,” a move that shifts the browser’s default‑status messaging out of the in‑app infobar and into the operating system itself — and it lands amid an escalating series of...

Brussels has published formal market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, a move that opens a 12‑month fact‑finding window into whether the two hyperscalers function as regulated “gatekeepers” for cloud computing services —...

Google’s quiet decision to withdraw its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft has converted a high‑profile bilateral regulatory fight into a broader institutional test of how Europe will police the cloud era — and it shifts the most consequential questions about vendor lock‑in, cloud...

Google has quietly withdrawn its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices in the European Union, a move that follows the European Commission’s decision to open a broader market investigation into cloud computing under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act framework and...

Google Cloud has formally withdrawn the antitrust complaint it lodged with the European Commission in September 2024 over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices, a tactical retreat that coincides with the Commission’s own decision to open market investigations into cloud computing services —...

Google’s quiet withdrawal of its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a consequential tactical pivot: the company has stepped out of a one‑on‑one regulatory fight and handed the contest to Brussels, where the European Commission’s newly launched market investigations...

Google’s formal withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft is the most visible sign yet that the cloud competition fight has moved from bilateral legal wrangling to a Brussels‑led, regulatory test of the entire hyperscaler market — a shift triggered by the European Commission’s...

Google quietly withdrew the antitrust complaint it filed against Microsoft with the European Commission last year, a move that comes only days after Brussels launched sweeping market investigations into the cloud sector under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). What began as a high‑stakes regulatory...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s Azure cloud services is a strategic pivot that hands the dispute over cloud licensing and alleged vendor lock‑in to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement architecture — a move that reframes a...