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June 30, 2021 05:15 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557595/microsoft-google-six-year-legal-truce-end-scroogled-battles
Microsoft and Google prepare to battle again after ending six-year truce
Microsoft and Google have reportedly ended a six-year truce on legal battles. The Financial Times and Bloomberg are both reporting that Microsoft and Google formed an unusual truce in 2015, which expired in April. The pact was reportedly forged to avoid legal battles and complaints to regulators. It meant we haven’t seen Microsoft and Google complaining publicly about each other since the days of Scroogled, a campaign that attacked Google’s privacy policies.
Now the gloves appear to be off once again, and we’ve seen some evidence of that recently. Google slammed Microsoft for trying to “break the way the open web works” earlier this year, after Microsoft publicly supported a law in Australia that forced Google to pay news publishers for...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557595/microsoft-google-six-year-legal-truce-end-scroogled-battles
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