{"id":995049,"date":"2026-02-26T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995049"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:30:29","slug":"microsoft-offices-raided-in-japan-as-company-suspected-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/microsoft-offices-raided-in-japan-as-company-suspected-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft offices raided in Japan, as company suspected of &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s offices in Japan were recently raided by the country\u2019s antitrust regulator. These raids came as part of an investigation into suspected unfair trade practices linked to the software giant\u2019s cloud business. A Nikkei Asia report cited sources familiar with the matter to claim that the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is examining whether Microsoft Japan improperly restricted customers of its Azure platform from using competing cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator is probing a potential violation of the Antimonopoly Act and is also expected to seek clarification from Microsoft\u2019s parent company in the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s offices in Japan were recently raided by the country\u2019s antitrust regulator. These raids came as part of an investigation into suspected unfair trade practices linked to the software giant\u2019s cloud business. A Nikkei Asia report cited sources familiar with the matter to claim that the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is examining whether Microsoft Japan improperly restricted customers of its Azure platform from using competing cloud services. The regulator is probing a potential violation of the Antimonopoly Act and is also expected to seek clarification from Microsoft\u2019s parent company in the United States.<\/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-995049","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\/995049","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=995049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}