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After claiming Microsoft wasn’t a competitor, Slack is now filing a competition complaint against Microsoft in the EU, claiming it is illegally tying Teams to Office 365.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Credit: Microsoft<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n On July 22, Slack Technologies announced it had filed a complaint against Microsoft in the European Union<\/a>, claiming Microsoft is abusing its market dominance to extinguish competition. After reviewing the complaint, the EU will decide whether or not to open an investigation into Microsoft’s practices.<\/p>\n Slack is claiming Microsoft has “illegally tied its Teams product into its market-dominant Office productivity suite, force installing it for millions, blocking its removal and hiding the true cost to enterprise customers.”<\/p>\n Microsoft makes Teams available for no additional charge to many of its Office 365 business customers. Like Slack, it also offers a free version of its group-collaboration product. As of April 2020, Microsoft aid there are 75 million daily active users of Teams<\/a>. As of late March, Slack said it had 12.5 million simultaneously connected users<\/a>. Microsoft has nearly 260 million paid seats of Office 365 commercial.<\/p>\n Slack also claims the company “want(s) to be the 2% of your software budget that makes the other 98% more valuable,” while Microsoft “want(s) 100% of your budget every time.” Slack also says Microsoft is repeating its “illegal behavior during the ‘browser wars'” by bundling\/tying products.<\/p>\n In May, Slack’s CEO Stewart Butterfield said that Microsoft wasn’t a competitor to Slack<\/a>, despite that Slack’s own 10-Q filing cites Microsoft as its main competitor.<\/p>\n I’ve asked Microsoft for comment on Slack’s complaint. No word back so far.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: Here’s the Microsoft response, via a company spokesperson:<\/p>\n “We created Teams to combine the ability to collaborate with the ability to connect via video, because that’s what people want. With COVID-19, the market has embraced Teams in record numbers while Slack suffered from its absence of video-conferencing. We’re committed to offering customers not only the best of new innovation, but a wide variety of choice in how they purchase and use the product.<\/p>\n “We look forward to providing additional information to the European Commission and answering any questions they may have.”<\/p>\n Tags:<\/b> Mary Jo Foley<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"slackvsteams.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/zdnet4.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2020\/07\/22\/f5c04234-9f43-45d2-9225-6c00bad8dd4e\/slackvsteams.jpg\")
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After claiming Microsoft wasn’t a competitor, Slack is now filing a competition complaint against Microsoft in the EU, claiming it is illegally tying Teams to Office 365. Credit: Microsoft On July 22, Slack Technologies announced it had filed a complaint against Microsoft in the European Union, claiming Microsoft is abusing its market dominance to … Continue reading Slack files competition complaint against Microsoft in the EU<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading