News Summary

• Opera challenged a Commission decision from February 2024, which came after a market investigation into Microsoft.
• Edge had met the DMA’s quantitative threshold for user numbers, but Brussels accepted Microsoft's argument that the browser was not an important gateway for reaching European users.
• Opera focused on a specific part of how Windows works.
• It told the court that “Edge, like Internet Explorer before it, is the gatekeeper through which users on Windows must pass to download” a rival browser.