Stefan Mileschin

Slack says Vole is back to its old evil ways

Slack has filed a formal complaint alleging that tech titan Microsoft is unlawfully abusing its power to squeeze newer rivals out of the market.

The claim is exactly the same one Microsoft faced 20 years ago.

Slack filed a complaint with the European Commission detailing "Microsoft's illegal and anti-competitive practice of abusing its market dominance to extinguish competition in breach of European Union competition law", the company said.

The complaint centres on Microsoft Teams, the company's chat and video conference platform. Teams is a competitor product not only to Slack but also to popular conference service Zoom, Google's Meet and chat services, and other video services. Slack alleges that the way Microsoft bundles Teams into its distribution of Office—widely used enterprise software such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—gives Microsoft an unfair advantage against the competition.

Slack's general counsel, David Schellhase said that Teams needs to be separated from the Office Suite and sold separately with a fair commercial price tag, so it competes on its own merits with its products.

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