{"id":1000332,"date":"2026-04-01T08:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000332"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:27:25","slug":"microsoft-business-software-faces-uk-competition-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/microsoft-business-software-faces-uk-competition-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft business software faces UK competition probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s competition watchdog announced plans on Tuesday to launch an investigation into Microsoft&#8217;s business software systems, under new measures targeting the dominance of technology giants. <\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority said the probe would assess whether the US tech company should be handed &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; (SMS), subjecting it to special requirements to improve competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s competition watchdog announced plans on Tuesday to launch an investigation into Microsoft&#8217;s business software systems, under new measures targeting the dominance of technology giants. The Competition and Markets Authority said the probe would assess whether the US tech company should be handed &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; (SMS), subjecting it to special requirements to improve competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}