F.T.C. LAUNCHES ANTITRUST INVESTIGATION INTO MICROSOFT

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an investigation into whether Microsoft has violated antitrust law. The agency recently sent a formal request for information to Microsoft asking about its cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity products. The FTC is particularly interested in how the company bundles its cloud computing offerings with office and security products and the company's growing power in the artificial intelligence space. Regulators in the European Union said earlier this year that Microsoft had violated antitrust rules when it packaged Teams with Office tools like Excel and Word.