Until now, Microsoft has been somewhat of an exception to U.S. antitrust regulators' recent campaign against allegedly anticompetitive practices at Big Tech companies. Facebook owner Meta Platforms, Apple, andAmazon.comInc. have all been accused by the U.S. of unlawfully maintaining monopolies. ...
The article reports that Linus operating system users filed a law suit against Microsoft Corp., which made the company face European Union (EU) antitrust probe. It states that the users accused the company of anti-competitive practices, charging that Windows 8's Secure Boot blocks users from ...
BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) may have to offer concessions to address EU antitrust concerns about its $69 billion bid for "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) after regulators opened...
Resize The Federal Trade Commission is launching an antitrust investigation intoMicrosoft, according to a report. It’ll likely be Chair Lina Khan’s last chance tocrack down on Big Tech . Continue reading this article with a Barron’s subscription ...
After court success in U.S., Microsoft still faces European antitrust investigation
Microsoft is no stranger to antitrust cases in the US, where the 1998–2001US vs Microsoft casesaw the software giant found to have a monopoly on PC operating systems and ordered to break itself up into one org to produce OSes and another for other software. ...
In a Friday statement, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said, "Seven states and the District of Columbia will not appeal Judge Kollar-Kotelly's decree in the Microsoft antitrust case. We will move on to enforcing the decree on behalf of consumers and fair competition. ...
Microsoft faces a fine up to 10 percent of its global annual turnover should it be found flouting European antitrust laws; a figure that could total close to €5.7 billion ($7 bn; £4.5 bn). Ina public statement, Microsoft admitted it had "fallen short in [its] responsibility" to upd...
Dominant AI players Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI face US antitrust inquiries Under the terms of Microsoft's deal with OpenAI, the GPT-4-creator was promised access to large quantities of cash and Azure computing power in exchange for integrating its models into Redmond's various products, ranging ...
For the first time the Commission has imposed a fine against a company for failure to comply with an EU antitrust ruling. Microsoft has already announced that it will appeal the decision. Jul 13, 2006 09:41 3 min. read Content type: Euractiv is part of the Trust Project Share ...