Microsoft’s latest moves to decouple Teams from its flagship productivity suites mark a watershed moment in how dominant software vendors respond to regulatory pressure — and could redraw the economic map for collaboration tools, enterprise procurement, and platform integration worldwide. The...
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The boom in generative AI — and the data-center buildout that powers it — is colliding with an electricity system built for a different era, and regulators, utilities and tech companies are scrambling to decide who ultimately pays for the upgrades. A landmark ruling by the Public Utilities...
A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has turned what Microsoft calls a routine product lifecycle milestone into a flashpoint over security, consumer choice and the company’s AI strategy—alleging that ending free Windows 10 support will abandon as many as hundreds of millions of...
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Poor old Microsoft, damned of they do and damned if they don’t. With US or EU competition regulators ever ready to pounce on them if they add a new feature that somebody claims is anti-competitive. The Sticky Notes feature in Windows 7 offers only minimal functionality, and there’s a far better...
I know this subject has been beaten to death and posted in almost all forums here, but I just wanted to give the latest info:
EU regulators told Microsoft Friday that they were unimpressed with the software giant’s proposal to sell versions of its operating system without a browser built into...