The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The probe was approved by FTC Chair Lina Khan ahead of her likely departure in January. The election of Donald Trump as US president, … Read more
Microsoft on Wednesday reported its quarterly sales grew 16 per cent to US$65.6 billion as the company sought to assure investors its huge spending on artificial intelligence is paying off. The company has spent billions of dollars to expand its global network of data centres and other physical infrastructure required to develop AI technology that … Read more
A global tech outage was disrupting operations in multiple industries on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off-air and everything from banking to health care hit by system problems. According to an alert sent by global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike to its clients and reviewed by Reuters, the company’s Falcon Sensor software is causing Microsoft … Read more
Microsoft said early on Friday that its cloud services outage in the Central US region was resolved after it led to the grounding and cancellation of several flights. Low-cost carriers Frontier Airlines, a unit of Frontier Group Holdings, Allegiant and Sun Country had reported outages that affected operations. Frontier said late Thursday that it was … Read more
Microsoft Corp has closed its authorised bricks-and-mortar stores in mainland China, according to three local distributors, as the US technology giant restructures its retail operations in the world’s second-largest economy. The company on Monday told local media that it decided to “integrate [all distribution] channels in mainland China”, although consumers can continue buying products and … Read more
Microsoft is offering China-based employees working in artificial intelligence (AI) the option of relocating to overseas locations such as the US, Australia and Ireland, according to two people familiar with the matter. The employees, including those from the Azure cloud computing team who were notified earlier this week, must make a decision by June 7. … Read more
Google has reportedly reached out to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) through a letter, requesting the competition regulator to clamp down on the “anticompetitive” business practices Microsoft adopts in cloud computing. A new letter posted on CMA’s website indicates Amazon has shown its support for the search giant’s criticism of Microsoft’s business practices … Read more
