The European Commission is investigating a Microsoft product bundle for anti-competition practices.
It's an antitrust question the European Commission is now formally investigating, according to an announcement Thursday.
The investigation comes after Slack, Teams' competitor in workplace message softwares, filed an anti-competition complaint against Microsoft in 2020. It said the combining of Teams with Office violated EU laws by abusing its market dominance to beat out the competition. The Teams software offers multiple forms of communication, including messaging, calling, video meetings and file sharing. Though it launched in 2017, its use really started to grow rapidly in 2019 with the pandemic, as many people started working from home and hosting digital meetings instead of in-person.
In a statement, Microsoft said it was cooperating with the antitrust probe, which is the EU's first into the company in nearly 15 years.
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