According to foreign media reports, Microsoft has a double whammy. Microsoft’s cloud computing business is facing new antitrust complaints when the acquisition of Activision Blizzard faces an EU antitrust review. On Wednesday, CISPE, a trade group including Amazon, filed a complaint with the EU antitrust regulator.

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CISPE said that the new contract terms implemented by Microsoft on October 1 and other practices of the company are causing irreparable damage to the European cloud computing ecosystem. Francisco Mingorance, Secretary General of CISPE, said in a statement: “When European customers seek to move to the cloud, Microsoft used its dominant position in productivity software to limit customers’ choices and increase costs, thus affecting the European digital economy.”

CISPE said in the complaint that the company used its leading position in the field of productivity software to lead European customers to its Azure cloud infrastructure, putting European competitors at a disadvantage. The accusation of its anti-competitive behavior includes discriminatory bundling and tying of its products, favorable pricing for itself, and targeting customers at the technical and competitive levels.

CISPE believes that the EU can establish an independent European Observatory to audit the license terms of the dominant software companies; Another provision can also be added to the Digital Markets Act to prohibit cloud computing leading enterprises from favoring their own software programs.

Microsoft subsequently amended the license agreement and made other changes to avoid anti-monopoly penalties in the European Union. However, its competitors Amazon, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft’s own cloud services are excluded from these changes.