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competition markets authority
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating Microsoft's business software ecosystem in the UK, focusing on Windows, Word, Excel, Teams, and Copilot licensing. The regulator plans to launch a strategic market status investigation from May, examining whether Microsoft's licensing and integration practices restrict competition. This follows earlier cloud-market findings that highlighted switching difficulties and interoperability issues. The tag covers discussions about the CMA's probe into Microsoft's software bundling and licensing, particularly how these practices may affect competition in the UK market.
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...