Microsoft is likely to face a European Union antitrust investigation in the coming months after remedy discussions with the EU watchdog to avert such a move appear to have hit a roadblock, people familiar with the matter said.
Microsoft, which has been fined 2.2 billion euros (US$2.4 billion) in the previous decade for practices in breach of EU competition rules, including tying or bundling two or more products together, found itself in the EU cross hairs after a complaint by Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slack in 2020.