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The FTC is investigating Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, some of which may have been directed at the government itself
Microsoft's 2021 deal with the government provided billions in security services, and essentially locked it in as a customer, ProPublica reported.
Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said her agency plans to investigate Microsoft for anticompetitive practices in the cloud market. The goal was to "spin the meter" for Azure and help it gain market dominance over its competitor, Amazon,a sales representative for Microsoft told ProPublica. "What Microsoft did does not count as an illegal monopoly because the government could have switched to a different vendor," Peter Cohan, associate professor of practice in management at Babson College, told Business Insider by email.
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