Anti Competitive Practices
The latest Anti Competitive Practices coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Brazil's CADE Launches Antitrust Investigation into Microsoft's Edge Browser Practices
In a significant development within the tech industry, Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) has initiated an antitrust investigation into Microsoft following a formal complaint...
UK Competition Authority Highlights AWS and Microsoft Azure Dominance in Cloud Market
The United Kingdom’s cloud computing sector is undergoing seismic scrutiny, thrust into the spotlight by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), whose recently concluded investigation lays...
Opera’s Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft in Brazil Highlights Global Browser Competition and Regulatory Challenges
For more than two decades, the digital landscape has been shaped by recurring battles over web browser dominance, antitrust lawsuits, and the backlash against tech giants leveraging their platforms...
Microsoft's £1B UK Cloud Licensing Lawsuit: What It Means for Businesses
Microsoft is facing a £1 billion class-action lawsuit in the UK over allegations of anti-competitive cloud licensing practices that allegedly disadvantaged businesses using rival cloud services. The...
EU Considers Waiving Fines as Microsoft Proposes Unbundling and Interoperability Measures
Background In July 2020, Slack Technologies filed a complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Microsoft was engaging in anti-competitive behavior by bundling its Teams collaboration...
Microsoft Faces £2.5B UK Lawsuit Over Alleged Software Licensing Overcharges
The corridors of power in Redmond are echoing with the footsteps of legal process servers once again, as Microsoft faces a groundbreaking £2.5 billion class action lawsuit in London's Competition...
UK Cloud Market Under Scrutiny: CMA Targets Microsoft, Amazon, Google for Anti-Competitive Practices
The UK’s cloud computing market, a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure, is facing intense regulatory scrutiny as the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sets its sights on industry...
Microsoft Cloud Licensing Debate: Anti-Competitive Practices Under Scrutiny
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Microsoft has found itself at the center of a heated debate over its licensing practices, sparking concerns among industry players and drawing the...
Microsoft's Licensing Enforcement on VS Code C/C++ Extension Sparks Open-Source Community Response
Introduction Microsoft's recent enforcement of licensing restrictions on its C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has ignited significant debate within the developer community. This move...
AWS vs Microsoft: Cloud Licensing War Threatens Market Competition
The cloud computing landscape, once heralded as the great democratizer of enterprise technology, now simmers with an increasingly bitter feud between Amazon Web Services and Microsoft—a conflict...
Microsoft vs UK CMA: Cloud Licensing Clash Exposes Market Control Issues
The recent clash between Microsoft and the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over cloud licensing practices has exposed deep fissures in the rapidly evolving cloud computing landscape,...