Here’s how Microsoft will change Windows to comply with EU laws

Here’s how Microsoft will change Windows to comply with EU laws

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Earlier this year, the European Commission designated Microsoft as one of six giant tech companies that qualify as “gatekeepers” under the terms of the Digital Markets Act.
Under the DMA, which was enacted in 2022, the owners of core platform services that connect businesses to final consumers have specific responsibilities to prevent them from using their “entrenched and durable position” to impose unfair conditions on customers. Companies identified as gatekeepers are required to “proactively implement certain behaviors that make the markets more open and contestable,” according to the Commission.
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Microsoft’s Windows made the list of operating systems that qualify as gatekeepers, alongside Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Today, in response to the Commission’s designation, the company outlined changes it plans to make in Windows and its associated apps to comply with the DMA. Many of the changes apply only to PCs running Windows versions identified during setup as being in the European Economic Area (EEA). Microsoft says the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by reinstalling Windows and resetting the PC to a different region.
Changes include the following:
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Microsoft says the changes it’s introducing are rolling out to Windows 11 in the Release Preview Channel, with a preview of updates for Windows 10 coming later. The company says it will complete these updates in the EEA to be compliant by March 6, 2024.

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