{"id":1024702,"date":"2026-07-30T07:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024702"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:28:53","slug":"uk-regulator-investigates-whether-microsoft-misled-personal-and-family-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/uk-regulator-investigates-whether-microsoft-misled-personal-and-family-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator investigates whether Microsoft misled personal and family customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s antitrust regulator said it would investigate Microsoft over whether it misled personal and family customers when marketing subscription plans for its ever-popular Microsoft 365 product, resulting in them overpaying. <\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority \u200csaid on \u2060Wednesday \u2060the probe would examine Microsoft&#8217;s addition of its AI assistant Copilot to Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Personal and family customers were initially offered Copilot at no extra cost, but some later faced higher-priced subscriptions when renewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s antitrust regulator said it would investigate Microsoft over whether it misled personal and family customers when marketing subscription plans for its ever-popular Microsoft 365 product, resulting in them overpaying. The Competition and Markets Authority \u200csaid on \u2060Wednesday \u2060the probe would examine Microsoft&#8217;s addition of its AI assistant Copilot to Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Personal and family customers were initially offered Copilot at no extra cost, but some later faced higher-priced subscriptions when renewing.<\/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-1024702","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\/1024702","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=1024702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024723,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024702\/revisions\/1024723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}