Google drops EU complaint against Microsoft cloud

ALPHABET'S GOOGLE ON Friday dropped its EU antitrust complaint about rival Microsoft's cloud computing practices, a week after EU regulators launched an investigation to see if Microsoft should be subject to rules aimed at curbing its power in this sector.

- FOO YUN CHEE

Last year, Google took its grievance to the European Commission, alleging that Microsoft's anti-competitive practices locked customers into Microsoft's cloud platform Azure.

Amazon leads the cloud computing market with a 30% share, followed by Microsoft at 20% and Google at 13%.