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Microsoft hits out at CMA investigation into UK cloud services

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The firm says it disagrees with most of the CMA’s findings. Photo: Kena Betancur/ Getty Images

The US tech giant has called the regulator’s latest move “a step in the wrong direction.”

US tech giant Microsoft has warned the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) it is taking “a step in the wrong direction” by opening another probe into the firm’s provision of cloud services to UK customers.

In January, the CMA published provisional findings of an investigation aimed at assessing competition

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