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Microsoft accuses Google of 'shadow campaign' to influence cloud regulation in Europe | TechCrunch

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Microsoft has accused Google of waging a clandestine war against the European market for cloud services.

The Open Cloud Coalition includes Google and several smaller cloud providers.

Microsoft deputy general counsel Rima Alaily called the outfit an “astroturf group organized by Google” Alaily said that Google had “gone through great lengths to obfuscate its involvement, funding, and control” The coalition is led by Nicky Stewart , public sector director of U.K. cloud hosting company Civo .