Antitrust enforcers with the Federal Trade Commission have opened a wide-ranging investigation into Microsoft’s business practices, starting off a big legal project that an incoming Trump administration must take up or abandon.

Regulators are demanding information from the company on its cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity products.

Microsoft is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission in a wide-ranging antitrust probe, making it the fifth Big Tech company to fall under such scrutiny in several years. The demand for information that spans hundreds of pages and culminates over a year of informal discussions with Microsoft competitors and partners.

The FTC has demanded information about several facets of Microsoft’s business, sending the tech giant an information request that is hundreds of pages long, according to Bloomberg.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses.

Microsoft is set to go under the microscope of the nation’s top antitrust watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, which is launching a<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened a broader antitrust probe into Microsoft, making the software giant the latest big tech firm in the list of firms that the antitrust regulator has been scrutinizing heavily.