![]() The European Commission is reportedly considering a fresh antitrust probe over Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with its Office suite (Slack complained) and is also looking into a separate complaint (from Amazon and others) about Microsoft’s terms for running its software on non-Microsoft clouds. The U.K.’s antitrust authority just nixed Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of Activision-Blizzard because it thought Microsoft would use the deal to dominate the nascent cloud-gaming market. But there are also signs of Redmond returning to its old, anticompetitive ways.īritish regulators are sniffing around both Microsoft and Amazon, worried that their terms for cloud customers are designed to discourage switching to other providers. space, where it’s become locked in a desperate race against Google that the latter company doesn’t seem to want to be part of, just yet. The most obvious indicator of Microsoft’s new phase is its aggressive, arguably impetuous behavior in the A.I. But the company is increasingly giving off retro vibes. Satya Nadella’s Microsoft was supposed to be a cooler, calmer entity. The Microsoft that kept getting nailed for anticompetitive practices was meant to be gone now-a relic of the combative Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer days. ![]() Microsoft had recently had an expensive run-in with the regulator over its bundling of Windows Media Player with Windows, so, in 2009, it settled the browser criticism by agreeing to give people a choice of browsers that they could set up as their default when firing up a new copy of Windows. As system administrators have been repeatedly noting in a fiery Reddit thread (reported on by The Verge), this disrespecting of users’ browser choices is a real blast from the past.īack in 2007-the year Apple released the first iPhone, though it was still very much a PC-first world-the Norwegian browser firm Opera complained to the EU antitrust authority about Microsoft bundling its internet Explorer browser with every copy of Windows. ![]()
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