Microsoft was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by German rival alfaview on Thursday, the second so far over its bundling of video app Teams into its Office product.
The Microsoft sign is shown on top of the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 19,2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photowas hit with an EU antitrust complaint by German rival alfaview on Thursday, the second so far over its bundling of video app Teams into its Office product.
Bundling both products together gives Teams a unique competitive advantage that is not justified by performance and which rivals cannot match, it said. "Tying Teams with the other applications in the Microsoft 365 suite creates a multipolar distribution advantage for the U.S. group," its managing director and founder, Niko Fostiropoulos, said in a statement.Microsoft added Teams to Office 365 in 2017 for free, with the app eventually replacing Skype for Business.into the move after Microsoft's remedies fell short, people familiar with the matter told Reuters earlier this month.
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