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Slack Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft

By Mark Di Stefano
· · Source: The Information

Slack has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Union alleging the company has engaged in “illegal and anti-competitive” behaviour by bundling its workplace Teams product into the Office suite. The complaint was filed with European regulators on Wednesday and is the latest episode in a bitter war between the two companies. Microsoft’s Teams product takes direct aim at...

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