{"id":718886,"date":"2026-07-30T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718886\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:29:16","slug":"uk-cma-investigates-microsoft-over-subscription-plan-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718886\/","title":{"rendered":"UK CMA investigates Microsoft over subscription plan marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        UK CMA investigates Microsoft over subscription plan marketing<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-abstract line-clamp-2\" data-v-1e217f04=\"\">\n        The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Microsoft over marketing of subscription plans. It will investigate if customers were misled about subscription options, and whether they were given clear information upfront when changes were made to Microsoft 365 Family and Personal Plans, including when new features such as Copilot were added.\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK CMA investigates Microsoft over subscription plan marketing The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}