Microsoft claims Google is funding shadow campaigns/organizations as proxies to attack them as a competitor:

This latest effort comes on the heels of their recent failure to weaponize another organization – CISPE – against Microsoft. In July, when CISPE was on the verge of resolving its complaint against Microsoft, Google offered CISPE’s members a combination of cash and credits amounting to an eye-popping $500 million to reject the settlement and continue pursuing litigation. Wisely, they declined. And, instead, the CISPE members endorsed the resolution we had developed together.

Google is also continuing, directly and through proxies, to lobby competition authorities around the world to intervene and impose restrictions on its hyperscale cloud competitors, but not itself. Google argues that it should be treated as a non-hyperscale or small cloud provider; in effect, it asserts that it is not in the same category as AWS and Microsoft. This strains credibility.

Google’s work on this range of topics underscores the fact that it is less concerned about Microsoft’s conduct in the cloud market than it is with discrediting a competitor wherever it can get a foothold.

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