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The European Union’s competition machinery has turned its sights on the two biggest names in public cloud: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. In a move that could reshape how enterprises buy infrastructure, the European Commission has opened three formal inquiries under the Digital Markets...

The European Commission has opened three formal market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), signaling that Brussels is prepared to consider applying the DMA’s toughest obligations to large cloud providers — a move that could...

The European Commission has opened a trio of market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), testing whether hyperscale cloud platforms should be treated as regulated “gatekeepers” and whether the DMA’s toolbox is fit to police...

Brussels has opened formal market investigations into Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to determine whether their cloud platforms act as critical “access gateways” and should face tougher obligations under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act — a move that could reshape how...

The European Commission has opened three formal market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure — two focused probes to test whether each cloud business should be classed as a DMA “gatekeeper” service, plus a third, horizontal...

The European Commission has launched a trio of market investigations that put Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely in Brussels’ crosshairs, opening the possibility that the two dominant cloud providers could be treated as regulated “gatekeepers” under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act —...

The European Commission’s decision to open formal market investigations into the cloud businesses of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure — together with a third, cross‑cutting probe to test whether the Digital Markets Act (DMA) can sensibly be applied to cloud infrastructure — marks a...

The diginomica network’s latest research lands a clear, uncomfortable verdict for enterprise technology teams: artificial intelligence is not primarily a technical deployment problem — it is a change management problem. Within an invitation‑only community of CIOs and CTOs, the report finds...

The European Commission has opened a trio of market investigations into the cloud businesses run by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure — a move that explicitly tests whether hyperscale cloud platforms should be treated as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and whether...

In a decisive escalation of EU tech regulation, the European Commission has opened market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), seeking to determine whether their cloud offerings function as “gatekeeper” services and whether the...

The European Commission has opened formal market investigations into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), signalling a possible expansion of EU gatekeeper obligations into cloud infrastructure and setting the stage for a year-long regulatory review of...

The European Commission’s decision to probe the market power of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—and to weigh bringing cloud infrastructure within the scope of the Digital Markets Act—reflects a strategic shift: regulators now see cloud concentration as a systemic risk to...

The European Commission is preparing a formal look into whether Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud should be brought within the scope of the Digital Markets Act after a run of high‑impact outages exposed both the systemic importance of hyperscale clouds and the practical...

Europe’s sudden dependence on a handful of hyperscalers moved from abstract policy debate to urgent public‑policy problem this autumn, after two high‑impact outages — one at Amazon Web Services and one at Microsoft Azure — interrupted banking, transport, messaging and public services across the...

Microsoft’s recent moves in Canary and Insider channels suggest the long‑running tug‑of‑war over whether Windows 11 will keep forcing Edge and Bing for taskbar searches may finally be loosening — but the change is still an experiment, regionally motivated, and far from guaranteed to ship...

Microsoft appears to be testing a change that would let the Windows 11 taskbar search respect the browser and search engine you set as defaults — meaning a typed query could open in Chrome with Google (or in your preferred browser/search combination) instead of being routed to Microsoft Edge and...

Microsoft has quietly altered the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to give consumers across the European Economic Area a one‑year window of free security updates — but the relief comes with narrow eligibility rules, mandatory Microsoft account sign‑ins, and a hard deadline that...

Microsoft will keep releasing security updates for Windows 10 for one extra year in the European Economic Area, but the relief is strictly regional—and the fine print matters more than the headlines. Background Microsoft has set October 14, 2025 as the official end-of-support date for Windows...

Microsoft’s push to make Edge an “AI browser” took a decisive step this year with an update that gives Copilot the ability to act on users’ behalf inside the browser — opening and navigating tabs, running searches, and executing multi-step tasks like bookings and form-filling when explicitly...

Microsoft’s last-minute concession is a win for European consumers: the company will provide a one-year, no-cost extension of critical security updates for Windows 10 users inside the European Economic Area (EEA), while users elsewhere still face a mixed bag of free-but‑conditional enrollment, a...