Microsoft is asking the inspector general at the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether agency management improperly leaked news of its antitrust investigation into the company, and make their findings public.

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.

The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, according to multiple reports — corroborating earlier reporting by the Financial Times.