{"id":985519,"date":"2026-01-16T08:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985519"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:56:11","slug":"swiss-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-microsoft-license-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/swiss-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-microsoft-license-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss regulator opens inquiry into Microsoft license fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich: The Swiss Competition Commission said Thursday that it had opened a preliminary inquiry into Microsoft&#8217;s licensing fees, after complaints by rivals over what it called &#8220;significant&#8221; price hikes for the Microsoft 365 software suite. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recent fee increases may constitute indications of an unlawful restriction of competition,&#8221; the agency said. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft 365 is widely used &#8220;by private businesses as well as numerous government agencies, public companies and other government-related bodies&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich: The Swiss Competition Commission said Thursday that it had opened a preliminary inquiry into Microsoft&#8217;s licensing fees, after complaints by rivals over what it called &#8220;significant&#8221; price hikes for the Microsoft 365 software suite. &#8220;Recent fee increases may constitute indications of an unlawful restriction of competition,&#8221; the agency said. Microsoft 365 is widely used &#8220;by private businesses as well as numerous government agencies, public companies and other government-related bodies&#8221;, it added.<\/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-985519","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\/985519","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=985519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}