Microsoft is facing a multibillion-pound legal claim in the UK over alleged anticompetitive behavior, the claim accuses the company of abusing its market dominance to restrict competition between new and pre-owned software licenses, inflating prices for both. In the case of this particular lawsuit in the UK, the focus is on Microsoft Office and Windows licenses sold since October 1, 2015, therefore spanning a period of a decade.It’s not the first time Microsoft has been in the news over anticompetitive business practices. A 2020 complaint from Slack was recently resolved when the tech giant unbundled Teams from its software subscriptions. Microsoft was also in trouble in the UK last year over allegedly making it more expensive for Windows Server customers to use the software on rival cloud platforms. Do you think that tech companies do follow rules ?

