Slack Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft
July 22 2020 - 9:31AM
Dow Jones News
By Sam Schechner
Microsoft Corp. is facing an antitrust complaint in the European
Union over its push into workplace-collaboration software, joining
a series of big tech firms under scrutiny on both sides of the
Atlantic for allegedly abusing their dominance, and echoing the
Windows-maker's competition battles more than a decade ago.
Slack Technologies Inc., maker of the eponymous workplace
platform, on Wednesday filed a complaint before the European
Commission, the EU's top competition regulator, accusing Microsoft
of violating EU competition law by tying its Teams collaboration
software to its widely used Microsoft Office productivity-software
suite.
Slack alleges that Microsoft forces Office users to install the
Teams software, blocks its removal, and makes certain types of
interoperability with rivals impossible. The company is asking the
EU to force Microsoft to sell Teams as a standalone product, rather
than bundling it with Office.
Wednesday's complaint is the latest of several in the EU and
U.S. accusing large technology companies of abusing their alleged
dominance.
Write to Sam Schechner at sam.schechner@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 22, 2020 09:16 ET (13:16 GMT)
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