A class action antitrust lawsuit worth 1 billion. pounds (1.27 billion USD) was filed in Great Britain against the American technology corporation Microsoft, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The class-action lawsuit, filed by law firm Scott+Scott, accuses the company of inflating prices for British corporate customers using the Windows Server operating system in combination with the cloud platforms of rivals such as Google and Amazon. The claim was filed on December 3 at the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal.
At the end of November ag. Bloomberg, citing sources, reported that a large-scale antitrust investigation of Microsoft had begun in the United States. According to them, the focus of the investigation is Microsoft's possible use of an office suite and security software to tie users to its cloud applications. Because the corporation is a major government contractor and receives billions of dollars worth of contracts from various departments, including the Pentagon, the committee's concerns include Microsoft's “cybersecurity failures”.