Microsoft anti-trust?

Now that Microsoft is using their Office monopoly to force Bing, will there be government anti-trust investigations like for Amazon and Google?

Conversation 3 comments

  • anoldamigauser

    Premium Member
    23 January, 2020 - 11:01 pm

    <p>Microsoft has a large market share for productivity software, but it is not a monopoly. The EU regulators are concerned with abuse that hurts competition, and since this may slightly decrease Google's share in Search, they would probably view it as a net positive. In the US, there does not seem to be much appetite for anti-trust at the moment (unless you own a newspaper the current administration feels is unfair to it), so I do not see anything happening there.</p><p>As it is only an announcement at this point, and it has been received rather poorly, I would not be surprised to see Microsoft walk this one back.</p>

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      24 January, 2020 - 9:05 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#515436">In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:</a></em></blockquote><p>Um. There's all kinds of appetite for antitrust: At least three parts of the US government are investigating Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google right now. </p>

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    24 January, 2020 - 9:04 am

    <p>No, because Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly of any kind.</p>

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