Google, Microsoft cease six-year truce on legal disputes

The 2015 deal that saw Microsoft and Google agree not to sue each other has not been renewed, potentially because Microsoft appears to have escaped the US government's Big Tech legislation plans.The truce began shortly after Sundar Pichai (pictured) took over at Google, and Satya Nadella became Microsoft CEOIn late 2015, around 20 different international lawsuits between Microsoft and Google were abruptly ended when the two firms negotiated a settlement. That settlement was believed to include some financial arrangements, but it chiefly saw the two form a pact which has only now ended. Read more...