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The FTC’s Microsoft antitrust probe reportedly focuses on software bundling
The company reportedly used a government cybersecurity crisis (partially caused by a known exploit in a Microsoft product) to sell more licenses to the feds. Is it 1998 again?
Microsoft confirmed to ProPublica that the FTC issued a civil investigative demand (essentially a subpoena), forcing the company to hand over information related to the case. A Microsoft spokesperson told the publication — without providing on-the-record examples — that the FTC document is “broad, wide ranging, and requests things that are out of the realm of possibility to even be logical.” Following a meeting with President Biden in the summer of 2021, the company was said to have offered to upgrade the government’s existing bundles (including Windows and its Office suite) to a more expensive version that added its advanced cybersecurity products.
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