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Slack says it has filed an anti-competitive complaint adjoin Microsoft with the European Commission. "The complaint divisions Microsoft's unconstitutional as well as anti-competitive convenance of abusing its market dominion to extinguish concours in betrayment of European Union concours law," says Slack in a statement. Slack alleges that Microsoft has "illegally tied" its Microsoft Teams product to Office as well as is "force installing it for millions, blocking its removal, as well as lurking the trustworthy forfeit to exertion customers."

"Microsoft is reverting to past behavior," claims David Schellhase, inferred counsel at Slack. "They created a weak, copycat product as well as tied it to their overbearing Office product, force installing it as well as blocking its removal, a limn dummy of their unconstitutional dogmas during the 'browser wars.' Slack is asking the European Commission to booty unexpected ardency to ensure Microsoft cannot protract to illegally leverage its power from one market to arithmetic by bundling or tying products."

Slack has persistently claimed that Microsoft Teams is not a trustworthy competitor, liberally because of the genuineness that it's more focused on video calls as well as meetings. That's externally not true, as well as Slack as well as Microsoft have been caught in a befall for the future of workplace communications for months now.

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Microsoft claimed Slack doesn't have the "breadth as well as depth" to reinvent work, as well as Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has previse said that Microsoft is "unhealthily strayed with killing us."

"We created Teams to commix the craftsmanship to collaborate with the craftsmanship to connect via video, because of the genuineness that that's what persons want," a Microsoft tactician tells The Verge. "With COVID-19, the market has embraced Teams in record numbers while Slack suffered from its deficiency of video-conferencing. We're single-minded to subway customers not only the all-time of new innovation, except a wide array of palatial in how they purchase as well as use the product. We peekaboo forward to providing boosted information to the European Commission as well as answering any questions they may have."

The concours between the two companies first began nearly four years ago back Slack paid for a full-page newspaper ad to "welcome" Microsoft Teams as a competitor. Microsoft overtook Slack validating a year ago, as well as has hit big user numbers afresh toast to pandemic-related demand. Microsoft revealed it had 75 million daily breathing users of Microsoft Teams fetch in April, as well as the congregation may well update that icon during its emolument chronograph later today.

Slack previse revealed it has 12 million daily breathing users fetch in October, except the congregation has not publicly updated this ordinal unendingly since. Slack did diaspora user annal fetch in March as more businesses vehement to unascertained working.

The European Commission will now examine Slack's complaint to dispose whether it meets locale for a guessing investigation. Microsoft hasn't faced a guessing antitrust investigation in Europe since 2008, back the congregation was somewhen forced to offer a browser hurray palatial hind bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Microsoft was later fined $730 million for unprosperous to integrate the browser hurray tegument in Windows 7 SP1.

Update July 22nd, 12:41PM ET: Boosted faultfinding from Microsoft.