Golden Finance reported that sources said the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft (MSFT.O), ranging from the company's cloud computing and software licensing business to cybersecurity products and artificial intelligence products. After more than a year of informal interviews with Microsoft's competitors and business partners, law enforcement officials crafted a hundreds-page demand asking Microsoft to hand over relevant information. FTC antitrust lawyers will meet with Microsoft's competitors next week to gather more information. A focus of the current investigation is Microsoft's bundling of its popular office productivity and security software with cloud products. After a series of cybersecurity incidents involving Microsoft products, the FTC intensified its scrutiny of Microsoft's cloud computing business. Microsoft's cybersecurity lapses, coupled with its status as a government contractor, were seen by the FTC as problematic for its influence on the market. Part of the investigation focuses on Microsoft's practices related to security software Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), which helps authenticate users logging into cloud-based software.