Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Smith originally criticized the CMA and said confidence in the UK ...

The UK’s competition watchdog says that Microsoft has a “significant degree of market power” in key software products, and that its licensing practices may therefore influence customer ...

However, in a simultaneous announcement today, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened a new investigation into a restructured proposal Microsoft has submitted for review.

The UK’s CMA now investigating if Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff was a disguised merger Since it was not an official merger, the process did not pass through the scrutiny of ...

Therefore, while there are actual horizontal overlaps between Activision and Microsoft (with both developing and selling games), the CMA investigation focused on the vertical effects of the ...

The CMA said its decision was motivated by concerns about the deal’s effect on the future of the nascent cloud gaming market, where Microsoft is a key player. It feared the deal would lead to ...

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard may finally be at the finish line. The CMA provisionally greenlit Microsoft's acquisition of the "Call of Duty" developer. It comes after a lengthy period in ...

More details have come to light about the decision to halt Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard from from the recent UK Competition and Market Authority (CMA) report. Along with the ...

The CMA probe, which began in October 2023, has seen both AWS and Microsoft’s operations come under close scrutiny, as the watchdog sets to work on establishing if the pair's actions are ...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had opened a merger inquiry into the link-up between the two firms in late 2023 to establish whether Microsoft’s position as a major investor with ...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a summary of its decision Wednesday, finding that while Microsoft’s actions constituted a “relevant merger situation” and thus fall ...

As well as this, the CMA also has powers to intervene and roll out changes to how the likes of AWS and Microsoft behave to correct any anti-competitive behaviours its work brings to light.