The European Commission is probing if
Microsoft is preventing customers from relying on
certain security software from its competitors, according to a
document that regulators sent to at least one.
The European Commission, which serves as the EU s competition watchdog, is examining Microsoft s Entra ID software, previously known as Azure Active Directory.
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The software lets companies control who can log into their cloud-based apps. Regulators have sought to understand, among other questions, if Microsoft customers are able to use only rival software to authenticate into Microsoft services, or if they must also use Entra ID, according to the document seen by Reuters.