--- title: Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe description: Japan's Fair Trade Commission has raided Microsoft's Japanese office as part of an antitrust investigation into how the company licenses software for use on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-cooperating-with-japanese-antitrust-probe-wda2fici4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe | daily.dev og:description: Japan's Fair Trade Commission has raided Microsoft's Japanese office as part of an antitrust investigation into how the company licenses software for use on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-cooperating-with-japanese-antitrust-probe-wda2fici4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WDa2FICI4.png og:image:alt: Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Japan's Fair Trade Commission has raided Microsoft's Japanese office as part of an antitrust investigation into how the company licenses software for use on cloud platforms other than its own Azure. Microsoft says it is fully cooperating. The probe mirrors similar regulatory scrutiny Microsoft has faced in the UK, Europe, and the US over practices that offer deep discounts for Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure while effectively charging more on rival clouds. Microsoft made some changes in Europe but those were deemed insufficient by Google, and matters remain unresolved in the UK and US. Japan's JFTC has a track record of pursuing Big Tech, having previously targeted Apple and Google over app store practices. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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