Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office
A spokesperson for the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, said today: “We have no comment.”
Microsoft told us: “We continue to engage cooperatively with the commission in its investigation and are open to pragmatic solutions that address its concerns and serve customers well.” Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, a member of the European Parliament, last week put pressure on Europe to launch a probe into Microsoft’s Teams issue: “Three years after the [Slack] complaint was lodged, Microsoft’s dominant position in the market has grown, while the complainant is still waiting for meaningful progress in this case.”
She pointed to Teams gathering roughly 300 million monthly active users, whereas Slack has an estimated 50 or so million. There is a fear Microsoft bagged all those users in a not-so-fair way, primarily by including Teams in Office. The Slack complaint and others like it are forming something of a pattern in Europe: German cloud provider Nextcloud lodged one in 2021 against Microsoft for
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