News Summary

• Britain's competition watchdog has proposed designating Microsoft with "strategic market status" in business software.
• The move could pave the way for interventions in how the US tech major bundles products such as Excel, Teams and its Copilot AI assistant.
• The Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation in May into whether Microsoft's position in software used by around 20 million people a month in Britain was uncompetitive.
• The regulator will invite views on the proposed designation and will then make a final decision by February.