The Federal Commerce Fee is transferring forward with a broad antitrust probe of Microsoft that was opened within the waning days of the Biden administration, Bloomberg Information reported Wednesday citing folks aware of the matter.
FTC workers in latest weeks have continued to work on the investigation, assembly with corporations and different teams to collect data, the report mentioned.
Reuters reported in November that FTC is inspecting allegations that Microsoft is doubtlessly abusing its market energy in productiveness software program by imposing punitive licensing phrases to stop prospects from transferring their information from its Azure cloud service to different aggressive platforms.
Microsoft and the FTC didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
