competition and markets authority

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has moved from cloud infrastructure into the broader Microsoft productivity stack, opening a strategic market status investigation that could reshape how Windows, Microsoft 365, Teams, and Copilot are packaged, licensed, and interoperable in Britain...

Britain’s competition watchdog is preparing to put Microsoft at the center of its newest digital markets test, and the implications could reach far beyond licensing footnotes and procurement paperwork. The Competition and Markets Authority has signaled that it will open a Strategic Market Status...

Microsoft’s business software empire is under fresh scrutiny in the UK, and this time the Competition and Markets Authority is looking beyond cloud infrastructure into the broader productivity stack that underpins day-to-day work for millions of organisations. The regulator says it will launch a...