Microsoft could noisy Financial Times stop that Teams-Software together with the others Office 365 applications to offer. With that one should antitrust investigation be prevented by EU authorities.
2020 passed Microsoft competitor Slack lodged a complaint with the EU Commission, in which the company complained that the joint offer was anti-competitive. In order to prevent a closer investigation, Microsoft wants to remove the video call and messaging software from the bundle. In the future, the tech giant wants to offer its Teams app as an option for Office applications anonymous sources quoted.
Slack demanded a completely separate sale
However, the decision is not finalized and talks are still ongoing, the sources stress. In addition, it is unclear whether the step taken by the EU Commission will be sufficient. Slack, which has since been bought by software company Salesforce, is demanding one in 2020 completely separate sale from Teams and Office.
The complaint from instant messaging service Slack came at a time when working from home during the Coronapandemie boomed. While Slack was only able to benefit a little from the home office boom and in 2020 for example 12 million daily users had, the users* of teams rose by leaps and bounds 20 to 75 million at. Last should teams 280 million monthly users have had, as Microsoft stated in March 2023.
561 million euros fine for Internet Explorer
It wouldn’t be the first time that Microsoft has had to face the European Commission’s antitrust investigations. In 2008, the Commission accused Microsoft of Internet Explorer unlawfully distributed since the browser was bundled with Windows. Microsoft agreed with the Commission to offer a choice of browsers. However, the tech company did not follow through on this promise, which is why it was fined in 2013 in the amount of 561 million euros was convicted.
