{"id":969978,"date":"2025-10-28T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969978"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:58:52","slug":"australia-takes-microsoft-to-court-says-forced-customers-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/28\/australia-takes-microsoft-to-court-says-forced-customers-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia takes Microsoft to court; says: Forced customers to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft seems to be in a bit of trouble in Australia. As Australia&#8217;s competition regulator has sued the software giant accusing it of misleading millions of customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with artificial intelligence tool Copilot. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has alleged that the technology giant misled about 2.7 million customers by suggesting they had to move to higher-priced Microsoft 365 personal and family plans that included Copilot. The higher ricing came into effect starting October 24.<\/p>\n<p>As per ACCC, after the integration of Copilot, the annual subscription price of the Microsoft 365 personal plan increased by 45% to A$159 ($103.32) and the price of the family plan went up by 29% to A$179.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft seems to be in a bit of trouble in Australia. As Australia&#8217;s competition regulator has sued the software giant accusing it of misleading millions of customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with artificial intelligence tool Copilot. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has alleged that the technology giant misled about 2.7 million customers by suggesting they had to move to higher-priced Microsoft 365 personal and family plans that included Copilot. The higher ricing came into effect starting October 24. As per ACCC, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969978","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}