switching costs

Antitrust enforcers across the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union have zeroed in on the commercial plumbing of the internet — the hyperscale cloud providers — to ask a blunt question: are today’s dominant cloud contracts and pricing practices deliberately sticky, and are...

Microsoft’s decision to formally separate Teams from Office 365/Microsoft 365 marks the close of a high‑stakes regulatory chapter and creates a new competitive baseline for enterprise collaboration tools worldwide. The European Commission and Microsoft reached a negotiated package of commitments...

When a company is described as a “core holding” for every investor and still manages to seduce finance nerds after decades in the spotlight, you know we’re not talking about Blockbuster. We’re talking about the digital deity of Redmond: Microsoft. A company so pervasively embedded in our daily...