European regulators to Microsoft: We’re watching you
Microsoft has built itself into the company with the world’s highest valuation, while managing to avoid (for the past several years, anyway) the attention of the U.S. Justice Department, federal regulators and Congress. Its peers, meanwhile, including Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple, have found themselves embroiled in time-consuming and energy-sapping investigations.
But for Microsoft, those days of freedom may be coming to an end. Windows 10 and Office have fallen afoul of the European’s GDPR privacy regulations, and the consequences may be serious, and even spur investigations in the United States.