EU regulators have launched an investigation into Microsoft
2022.11.24 12:17
EU regulators have launched an investigation into Microsoft
Budrigannews.com – As regulators increase attention to Microsoft’s practices in a situation caused by Salesforce.com, Microsoft will most likely face the investigation of the European Union’s antitrust investigation.
On Thursday, the workspace, informing about the Slack application, informed persons who are familiar with this problem. Last week, Slack appealed to the European Commission, claiming that Microsoft illegally included the Teams application in its Office, which is a chat and video application for the workplace. In an effort to take part in the lucrative and rapid expansion of the workplace collaboration market, Microsoft launched Teams in 2017.
Slack turned to the EU competition regulator, which asked the American software giant to sell office clothes and a team separately at a reasonable commercial price. According to the representatives, a sign that the competition protection authority is preparing to launch an official investigation is that the commission sent out another batch of documents, in addition to those that were sent out in October of this year. “The committee checks for compatibility and Microsoft packaging, but in this case more accurately.
One of the people said: “She is looking for information that allows her to determine the means of legal protection.” The second said that they were “preparing the ground for an investigation.” Microsoft and the commission have not commented on cases related to so-called bindings and other practices in the past decade. Microsoft was fined 2 billion euros and $3 billion.
