The Competition and Markets Authority has proposed designating Microsoft with strategic market status in the UK’s business software market, a step that would subject the US technology group to tougher regulatory oversight. A final decision is due in February.
The designation could open the way for interventions targeting Microsoft’s practice of bundling its software into a single package.
Strategic market status, or SMS, is a designation under the UK’s digital markets competition regime. It does not imply wrongdoing, but means a technology company has “substantial and entrenched market power” in the UK. It gives the regulator the opportunity to impose targeted interventions to improve choice and competition in the market.
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