Gate.io, 19.11.28 Information: According to sources, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft (MSFT.O), covering the company's cloud computing and software licensing business, network security products, and artificial intelligence products. After more than a year of informal interviews with Microsoft's competitors and business partners, law enforcement officials have drafted a request for hundreds of pages of information from Microsoft. FTC antitrust lawyers will meet with Microsoft's competitors next week to gather more information. One focus of the investigation is Microsoft's bundling of its popular office productivity and security software with its cloud products. Following a series of network security incidents involving Microsoft products, the FTC has increased its scrutiny of Microsoft's cloud computing business. Microsoft's mistakes in network security, combined with its status as a government contractor, are seen by the FTC as problematic in terms of its market influence. Part of the investigation focuses on Microsoft's practices related to the security software Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory), which helps authenticate user logins for cloud-based software.
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Gate.io, 19.11.28 Information: According to sources, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft (MSFT.O), covering the company's cloud computing and software licensing business, network security products, and artificial intelligence products. After more than a year of informal interviews with Microsoft's competitors and business partners, law enforcement officials have drafted a request for hundreds of pages of information from Microsoft. FTC antitrust lawyers will meet with Microsoft's competitors next week to gather more information. One focus of the investigation is Microsoft's bundling of its popular office productivity and security software with its cloud products. Following a series of network security incidents involving Microsoft products, the FTC has increased its scrutiny of Microsoft's cloud computing business. Microsoft's mistakes in network security, combined with its status as a government contractor, are seen by the FTC as problematic in terms of its market influence. Part of the investigation focuses on Microsoft's practices related to the security software Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory), which helps authenticate user logins for cloud-based software.