Google now filing a complaint against rival Microsoft in the EU accusing it of unfairly locking its clients into using its cloud product for today's tech check

Dear Jrejabosa on how this could be just the latest and recently renewed scrutiny against

Microsoft dear and interesting that Google is turning the tables on the EU after

so often it's a target.

Yeah and you know what it's also interesting you use the word renewed that's a good word to describe

it because Microsoft was of course the target of regulators in the late 90s

in early 2000s but in this current wave of scrutiny it's enjoyed more of an under the radar status relative to its big tech counterparts.

Call it the antitrust advantage. The EU complaint though is another sign that that advantage could be eroding and that

Microsoft could face more pressure not just from regulators but its tech peers as well.

Google, which is facing a mountain of legal battles on its own.

It's going on the offense here, using its smaller player status in cloud computing

to argue that Microsoft has a monopoly in this space.

Now, it has been an effective strategy in the EU

for others, much smaller companies, like Slack,

which filed a complaint against Microsoft's

bundling of teams with Office 365.

There is also Epic Games, which went after Apple and Google's

App Store policies both have gained concessions in the form of fines or the

lowering of Wald Gardens arguably more important. Now Google's complaint is unique, Sarah identified this,

in that it pits giant against giant,

making it very high profile, a high profile fight

that could raise flags for American regulators.

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