antitrust regulators

Japan’s competition watchdog executed a high‑profile on‑site inspection of Microsoft’s Tokyo offices in late February, opening a formal probe into whether the software giant’s licensing, pricing and technical practices steered customers toward Microsoft Azure and made it harder or more expensive...

Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...

Brazil’s antitrust authority has opened a focused inquiry into whether Microsoft used commercial leverage over PC makers to ensure Microsoft Edge ships as the exclusive, out‑of‑the‑box browser on Windows machines — a development that could bring one of the industry’s longest‑running browser...