OPINION: When The Federal Court Has Finished With Microsoft How About A Monopoly Inquiry

The ACCC has launched Federal Court proceedings against Microsoft Australia, alleging the tech giant misled roughly 2.7 million Australians over subscription options and price increases following the integration of its AI assistant, Copilot, into Microsoft 365 plans.

This action is long overdue.

What’s needed is another inquiry into Microsoft’s monopoly of the OS and office application environment and efforts to push Windows users into a global monopoly and toward other services like their horror Microsoft Edge and their none essential Copilot.

Despite claiming to offer cutting-edge AI, Microsoft struggles with basic functionality. Users logged into Microsoft 365 with Copilot via Microsoft Authenticator often face repeated login requests for Teams, OneDrive, and other apps. I recently e