Microsoft hit with UK competition regulator probe over software business

Microsoft has been hit with a fresh probe into its business software ecosystem by the British competition regulator.The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority announced on Tuesday it is launching a "strategic market status (SMS) investigation" into the tech giant's suite of enterprise software, starting in May. Hundreds of thousands of U.K. businesses and public sector organisations use Microsoft's business software, which includes Windows, Word, Excel, Teams and AI platform Copilot, every day, the regula ...