Japan’s dawn raid on Microsoft’s Tokyo offices is the latest, highly visible step in a global enforcement campaign probing whether dominant software vendors are using licensing, product design, and commercial terms to steer customers onto their own clouds and shut out rivals.
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Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...
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