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The FTC is preparing to investigate Microsoft’s cloud business
The agency’s antitrust investigation continues Biden administration scrutiny of Big Tech as the industry waits to discover what policies Donald Trump adopts.
Microsoft May Face FTC Investigation Over Azure
The agency under Lina Khan has increasingly targeted Big Tech, but her days at the agency are almost certainly numbered as a second Trump administration looms.
FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to launch an investigation into anti-competitive practices at Microsoft’s cloud computing business, as the US regulator continues to pursue Big Tech in the final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency.
FTC eyes Microsoft’s cloud practices amid anti-trust scrutiny
According to the report, the practices under scrutiny include sharply raising subscription fees for customers looking to switch providers, imposing high exit charges, and reportedly making Office 365 less compatible with competitor cloud services.
FTC reportedly begins investigating Microsoft’s cloud business practices
The FTC is reportedly readying an investigation into whether Microsoft used anti-competitive tactics to maintain a dominant position in the cloud market. According to the Financial Times, the agency is looking into allegations that Microsoft imposed punitive licensing agreements to prevent customers from moving data off its platforms.
Microsoft’s startup story: How the company became a tech giant, and what we can learn from it today
For this second chapter in our Microsoft @ 50 series, GeekWire spent the past month revisiting Microsoft’s early years, from ...
Microsoft facing major FTC probe over locking in users to Azure, productivity software
Increasing exit fees and rendering software migrations incompatible are just some of the accusations facing Microsoft.
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Microsoft added AI to software it has barely touched since 1985. The results are astonishing
If your artistic style is more stick-figure than Picasso, Microsoft has a remedy to boost your creativity: adding artificial ...
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10 Hot Open Source Software Companies To Watch In 2023
Microsoft, Red Hat, Google, MindsDB and Grafana Labs are among the hottest open software companies to watch in 2023. From tech giants like Microsoft and Red Hat to smaller upstarts like ...
Podcast: Revisiting Microsoft’s startup years, in search of new insights
A plaque on the Microsoft campus commemorates the launch of BASIC for the Altair, the company’s first product. Click to ...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gets $30M raise — while company fired nearly 2,500 workers
according to the company’s disclosures. Microsoft, the world’s biggest software-maker, is also a key vendor to the US government and national security establishment. Microsoft’s business ...
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10 Hottest AI Software Companies In 2023 (So Far)
Some of the companies are whom you’d expect – Microsoft, Google – but others include a wearable technology upstart using AI software to improve frontline supply chain worker productivity ...
Palantir Stock vs. Microsoft Stock: Wall Street Says Only 1 Will Head Higher From Here
Despite the strong outlook for the industry, Wall Street analysts only expect one of these enterprise-software leaders to ...
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Here’s How Microsoft Will Generate Revenue From Your Company’s Old Windows 10 Computers
Back in late 2023, Microsoft announced it would stop supporting Windows 10, a decision based around focusing the company’s efforts on selling newer software rather than paying developers to keep ...
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Microsoft Launches AI Agents, Deepening Rivalry With Salesforce
Microsoft also said that Copilot Studio, which lets companies build their own agents, will soon get the capability to have those agents act on their own initiative. That will be released in a ...