uk cma investigation

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 latest move in the United Kingdom is a reminder that its AI strategy is no longer being judged only as product design. It is now being tested as a competition and market-structure question, with the Competition and Markets Authority preparing a fresh probe into the company’s broader...

Microsoft is heading into a fresh and potentially far broader regulatory fight in the UK, with the Competition and Markets Authority preparing to examine not just cloud pricing but the company’s wider business software ecosystem. The probe, expected to begin in May, could pull in Windows, Word...

What counts as the “largest” cloud provider depends on the lens you use, but the market’s center of gravity remains remarkably stable: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud still dominate global cloud infrastructure spending, while a second tier of providers competes on...