Microsoft’s Japan Chief Stresses Compliance With Antitrust Probe

Microsoft Corp. is compliant with Japan’s antitrust watchdog and its inquiry, the chief of its local unit said, as the company fields an investigation over possible anti-competitive practices involving the Azure cloud services.

The country’s Fair Trade Commission is probing whether Microsoft restricted customers’ use of competing cloud services by preventing its software from running on platforms other than Azure, Bloomberg and other media reported earlier this week.

“Japan is one of the most significant strategic markets for Microsoft and everything we do is operated with integrity,” Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsusaka said at a Bloomberg.com Japan event in Tokyo ...