FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation

By Associated Press

Dec 04, 2024 12:25 am

ANTITRUST enforcers with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have opened a wide-ranging investigation into Microsoft's business practices, starting a big legal project that an incoming Trump administration must take up or abandon.

The FTC is investigating Microsoft's cloud computing business and related product lines such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, according to a person who was not authorized to discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

PROBE This April 12, 2016, file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris. The US Federal Trade Commission on Dec. 2, 2024, started an investigation on Microsoft’s business practices, which may or may not continue when the incoming Trump administration takes office on Jan. 20, 2025. AP PHOTO

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