FTC Grills Microsoft Rivals To Bolster Antitrust Probe

By PYMNTS
Publication Date: 2026-02-13 20:34:00

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been asking several of Microsoft’s competitors about the company’s business practices as part of an ongoing antitrust probe, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 13), citing unnamed sources.

The agency’s issuance of civil investigative demands steps up its investigation into whether Microsoft illegally monopolizes parts of the enterprise computing market by bundling its products and by making it harder for customers to use its products on other companies’ cloud services, according to the report.

The investigation was launched during the last days of the Biden administration and has been continued by the second Trump administration, the report said.

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