Britain's competition watchdog proposed on Friday to designate Microsoft with "strategic market status" in business software, a move that could pave the way for interventions in how the US tech major bundles products such as Excel, Teams and its Copilot AI assistant.
The Competition and Markets Authority launched in May an investigation into whether Microsoft's bundling of its business software products, which have around 20 million monthly users across the UK, was uncompetitive.
