Microsoft and Google have agreed to stop filing regulatory complaints against one another.

As reported by Re/code, the two companies announced Friday that they will try to work out differences with one another before voicing their complaints with regulators. In a statement to GeekWire, Microsoft said the decision reflects its “changing legal priorities.”

“Microsoft has agreed to withdraw its regulatory complaints against Google, reflecting our changing legal priorities,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. “We will continue to focus on competing vigorously for business and for customers.”

This is certainly a shift from past years, when the tech giants would go after one another on issues like search. It’s also symbolic of recent leadership changes, with Satya Nadella taking over as Microsoft’s CEO in 2014 and Sundar Pichai becoming CEO of Google this past summer.

The agreement also comes as Google faces antitrust charges with European regulators over its dominance of the Android market. Microsoft, meanwhile, recently dropped membership of two groups — FairSearch and ICOMP — that support antitrust charges against Google’s search business.

The two companies also reached a wide-ranging legal settlement this past September after years of wrangling over Google’s Chrome and Android technologies.

GeekWire

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