digital markets regime

The UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a strategic market status investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem on May 14, 2026, examining whether its power in workplace software lets it limit competition in cloud, cybersecurity, communications, and AI services. The case is...

Microsoft’s cloud business is heading into another regulatory test in the UK, and this one is more surgical than the CMA’s broad cloud market investigation that closed in July 2025. The watchdog has now moved toward a separate strategic market status probe focused on Microsoft’s business...

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...