India, March 5 -- The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has dismissed an antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft alleging that the big tech major is abusing its dominance in the desktop operating system (OS) market by bundling its Microsoft Defender antivirus with its Windows OS.

". The Commission does not find alleged contravention of the provisions of Section 4 of the Act against Microsoft being made out. In view of the foregoing, the Commission is of the opinion that there exists no prima facie case of contravention and the information filed is directed to be closed under Section 26(2) of the Act," read the CCI order.

The complaint, filed by an unnamed informant, claimed that Microsoft's practice of pre-installing and pre-act...