Google is like a dog with a bone over Microsoft's cloud licensing policies, not letting Euro regulators forget about what it sees as anti-competitive practices that penalize those wanting to run Windows software on rival cloud platforms.

The ad and cloud tech giant says it has been a year since it filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft , and seems frustrated with the progress – or lack of it.

Google's gripe centers on the licensing strategy that Microsoft operates regarding widely used software, including Windows Server and SQL Server. This makes it more expensive to run these products on certain clouds, notably those seen as key rivals for its own Azure cloud service, such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In particular, Microsoft permits cus

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