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Microsoft’s tactics to win cloud battle lead to new antitrust scrutiny

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Microsoft’s tactics to win cloud battle lead to new antitrust scrutiny

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Microsoft has escaped the recent backlash against the power and wealth of the biggest US tech companies.

Despite a stock market value that has soared to more than $2 trillion on its dominance of various parts of the business software market, it has avoided a repeat of the complaints that made it the most prominent target of antitrust action in the US and Europe at the end of the 1990s.

That is, until now.

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