Microsoft's ongoing antitrust saga with the European Commission has taken a decisive new turn, as the tech giant’s proposed commitments regarding its Teams platform are now under formal consultation in Brussels. For years, Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with its ubiquitous Office 365 and...
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Microsoft’s decision to unbundle Teams from Office in Europe is a strategic move that may help the company avoid another large fine from the European Union. This action responds to complaints from competitors like Slack (owned by Salesforce) and Alfaview...
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The dominance of Big Tech in the digital marketplace has long been a topic of contention among policymakers, technologists, and lay users alike. Nowhere is this monopolistic tendency more evident than in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, where the emergence of entities like OpenAI...
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Meta's recent announcement that it will begin training its AI models on the publicly available data of users from the European Union marks a significant development in the landscape of AI training data regulation and user privacy. This move aligns Meta with other major AI players like Microsoft...
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If you believed language wars belonged solely to fantasy novels and the odd Tolkien symposium, think again—Malaysia’s ongoing tug-of-war over the primacy of English versus the national language, Malay, is alive, multilingual, and kicking up controversy. As debates swirl from government chambers...
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The whirr of cooling fans has replaced the hum of office chatter in Europe’s digital nerve centers. In the age of artificial intelligence, the power struggles of nations are no longer confined to tariffs or embassies — they now play out in racks of servers, between fiber-optic cables, and deep...
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The ongoing transformation in global politics and technology is forcing Europe to reconsider its dependence on American cloud services. With a resurgence of disruptive policies under Trump 2.0, concerns over data sovereignty, national security, and digital independence have reached new heights...
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It seems that Microsoft has thrown a curveball into the tech world again, and this time, the stage is the European cloud-services market. The software leviathan has joined the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers of Europe (CISPE) mere months after resolving an anti-competitive licensing...
European authorities raise fresh concerns over Windows 10 data collection
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced changes to Windows 10 to offer users greater control over how it collects data about them from its devices and services. Among the changes were a new web privacy...
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Microsoft to randomly generate EU browser ballot list
In response to complaints from browser makers, Microsoft has revised its antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators so that Windows users will see a browser ballot screen that randomly lists the icons of the top five browsers upon...