Microsoft CEO Says Company Is On 'Right Side' On Antitrust Fight

While Congress and US regulators have argued with Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Apple Inc. over the companies' business practices, Microsoft has pursued the same type of investigation more than 20 years after it was sued by the US judiciary. Haven't. Received antitrust department.

The software company "ensures" that user privacy and Internet security are among its top product priorities."And when it comes to competition, you should be talking to people who are investing a lot of capital and doing lots of mergers and acquisitions to compete with Microsoft, and we appreciate that." Nadella said Wednesday. Said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

Nadella said he was concerned about the wave of hacks over the past few months, including ransomware attacks that crippled the business of a major pipeline company and food maker in the United States.

"We have another real pandemic which is a cyber pandemic," he said. "The number of attacks has undoubtedly increased, but the need for our response has also risen to the highest level. We just have to make progress as an industry. ”

Nadella also discussed tensions with Google following the end of a five-year truce between the two companies, which mutually agreed not to promote any legal lobbying against each other. He said he has "great respect" for Google and its leadership.
“We are fighting a good fight to compete against the huge top positions in this area,” he said of digital ad sales led by Google and Facebook.

Nadella praised Microsoft's Home Office policy, stressed the importance of flexibility, and considered "changed expectations" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. He spoke to Bloomberg Television after attending Microsoft's Inspire conference for partners, where the company unveiled a cloud-based version of Windows for remote workers among its announcements.

"We're really going to have to think about long-term strategies based on having all this data behind us or else we're going to go ahead and try to be very dogmatic," he said.