UK regulator targets Microsoft over business software, proposes strategic market status
Britain’s competition watchdog proposed designating Microsoft with “strategic market status” in business software, potentially paving the way for interventions in how the US tech major bundles products such as Excel, Teams and its Copilot AI assistant.
The Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation in May into whether Microsoft’s position in software used by around 20 million people a month in Britain was uncompetitive.
