{"id":1008186,"date":"2026-05-16T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008186"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:35:59","slug":"britain-investigates-microsoft-over-business-software-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/britain-investigates-microsoft-over-business-software-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain investigates Microsoft over business software dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will investigate Microsoft&#8217;s dominance in business software using its powers to oversee big tech, its antitrust regulator said on Thursday, which could lead to targeted interventions to encourage competition. <\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority said its &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; investigation, its fourth under powers granted last year, would examine whether \u200cthe bundling \u2060of Windows, \u2060Word, Excel, Teams, Copilot and other products was uncompetitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will investigate Microsoft&#8217;s dominance in business software using its powers to oversee big tech, its antitrust regulator said on Thursday, which could lead to targeted interventions to encourage competition. The Competition and Markets Authority said its &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; investigation, its fourth under powers granted last year, would examine whether \u200cthe bundling \u2060of Windows, \u2060Word, Excel, Teams, Copilot and other products was uncompetitive.<\/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-1008186","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\/1008186","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=1008186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}