{"id":969859,"date":"2025-10-28T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969859"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:13:41","slug":"microsoft-misled-subscribers-to-buy-pricey-ai-office-365-plans-says-new-lawsuit-by-australian-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/28\/microsoft-misled-subscribers-to-buy-pricey-ai-office-365-plans-says-new-lawsuit-by-australian-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft misled subscribers to buy pricey AI Office 365 plans, says new lawsuit by Australian watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is in trouble again, and this time, it involves the Australian watchdog and an expensive lawsuit. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched a major lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the tech giant misled approximately 2.7 million Australian customers into purchasing more expensive Microsoft 365 subscription plans that bundled its artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is in trouble again, and this time, it involves the Australian watchdog and an expensive lawsuit. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched a major lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the tech giant misled approximately 2.7 million Australian customers into purchasing more expensive Microsoft 365 subscription plans that bundled its artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969859","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=969859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}