Now, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel Rima Alaily is accusing FTC management of leaking details of the probe, in violation of the agency’s own e

Microsoft accused the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of violating its ethics standards by leaking an investigation to the press.

Rima Alaily, Microsoft's corporate VP and deputy general counsel for the competition and market regulation group, sent a letter to the FTC's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) yesterday urging IG Andrew Katsaros to take a look inside his house to see whether the information first reported by Bloomberg last week was leaked to the press.

But in an email to the FTC inspector general, sent Tuesday and posted publicly on LinkedIn, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel Rima Alaily said that Microsoft has not received a formal legal process from the FTC and that the company learned of the information request from the Bloomberg article.

After a report last week that the FTC was opening an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, spanning from its cloud business to AI, Microsoft responded, noting it was unaware of such a case despite asking the FTC.

Antitrust enforcers with the Federal Trade Commission have opened a wide-ranging investigation into Microsoft’s business practices, starting off a big legal project that an incoming Trump administrati

The reported investigation is something of a parting shot from an aggressive Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan.