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The European Union on Tuesday accused Microsoft Its “abusive” bundling of Teams and Office products violates antitrust rules.
“The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that Microsoft violated EU antitrust rules by bundling its communications and collaboration product Teams with popular productivity applications included in its enterprise Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites.” Enforcement agency – said in a statement of objection.
Microsoft had no immediate comment when contacted by CNBC.
This comes after Microsoft spun off Teams from Microsoft 365 last year to address antitrust concerns in the European Union.
However, the commission said in a statement on Tuesday that the changes were “insufficient to address its concerns and that additional changes to Microsoft’s behavior are necessary to restore competition.”
After receiving complaints, the EU began an investigation into Microsoft in July 2023, and the investigation is still ongoing. sales forceThere’s Slack, which has a chat service that competes with Teams.
As a formal step in the European Commission’s investigation, we will send a statement of objections to the companies involved outlining the concerns raised against them. These parties can then respond to the statement.
After a company responds, if the Commission determines that an infringement has occurred, it can ban the conduct and fine the company up to 10% of global revenue.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated soon.
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