Why is Salesforce complaining to regulators...

Salesforce lost its bid to buy LinkedIn when LinkedIn decided to sell itself to Microsoft for$26.2 billion.

Salesforce wants to Microsoft to be forced to share LinkedIn data with others such as itself, just as it openly shares data today.

If users of Salesforce's CRM are somehow locked out of using LinkedIn's data once the company belongs to Microsoft, that will be a major blow to the salespeople that use its software and, ultimately, to Salesforce itself.