collective action

Microsoft now faces a landmark, potentially industry‑reshaping legal fight in the United Kingdom: a collective action accusing the company of using Windows Server licensing rules to penalize customers who run workloads on rival clouds — an approach that, claimants say, has the effect of steering...

Microsoft told a UK judge that a planned mass lawsuit over its cloud licensing is defective because the claim’s methodology cannot reliably identify who suffered loss or by how much, a procedural attack that — if successful — would block a high‑stakes Collective Proceedings Order and leave...

Microsoft is defending itself against a sweeping £2.1 billion class claim in the UK that accuses the company of deliberately making it more expensive and operationally awkward for thousands of British businesses to run Windows Server on rival cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

Microsoft will tell judges at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) that a proposed mass claim accusing it of anti‑competitive cloud licensing practices should be struck out because the plaintiffs’ methodology for proving common liability and quantifying loss is flawed, a move that puts the...

A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...

In a sweeping judgment that shifts the ground under the modern app economy, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has found that Apple abused its dominant position in the distribution of iPhone and iPad apps, ruling that the company’s App Store commissions were excessive and that affected...

Which? has opened a major legal front against Qualcomm in the UK, asking the Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide whether the chipmaker abused a dominant market position and — if the claim succeeds — to recover roughly £480 million on behalf of up to 29 million UK smartphone buyers who...

Microsoft once again finds itself at the center of legal scrutiny in the United Kingdom, this time facing a potentially multibillion-pound collective claim that strikes at the heart of its software licensing practices. The suit, filed by barrister Alexander Wolfson and supported by the law firm...