{"id":1017144,"date":"2026-06-26T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017144"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:38:40","slug":"italy-regulator-probes-microsoft-over-microsoft-365-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/italy-regulator-probes-microsoft-over-microsoft-365-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy regulator probes Microsoft over &#8216;Microsoft 365&#8217; price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s antitrust authority said on Friday it had opened an investigation into Microsoft over alleged unfair commercial practices \u200clinked \u2060to \u2060the price hike of its &#8220;Microsoft 365&#8221; subscription. <\/p>\n<p>The regulator said the Windows maker did not adequately inform consumers that its Microsoft 365 \u2060service had \u200cbeen integrated with artificial intelligence tools Copilot \u2060and Designer. <\/p>\n<p>Consumers were automatically moved to a more expensive subscription plan unless they actively opted out, while receiving insufficient information to decide whether to renew their \u200ccontracts, the watchdog added in its statement. <\/p>\n<p>It added that the \u2060tech giant&#8217;s practice could be considered aggressive because it unduly limited consumers&#8217; freedom of choice. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s antitrust authority said on Friday it had opened an investigation into Microsoft over alleged unfair commercial practices \u200clinked \u2060to \u2060the price hike of its &#8220;Microsoft 365&#8221; subscription. The regulator said the Windows maker did not adequately inform consumers that its Microsoft 365 \u2060service had \u200cbeen integrated with artificial intelligence tools Copilot \u2060and Designer. Consumers were automatically moved to a more expensive subscription plan unless they actively opted out, while receiving insufficient information to decide whether to renew their \u200ccontracts, the watchdog added in its statement. It added that the \u2060tech giant&#8217;s practice could be considered aggressive because it unduly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017144","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017151,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017144\/revisions\/1017151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}