The European Commission on Tuesday accused Microsoft of breaking the union’s antitrust guidelines by tying its communication and collaboration product Teams to its fashionable productiveness purposes included in its suites for companies Office 365 and Microsoft 365.
Teams, as a cloud-based communication and collaboration instrument, presents functionalities resembling messaging, calling, video conferences, and file sharing, and brings collectively Microsoft’s and third-party office instruments and different purposes, the fee mentioned on Tuesday.
It acknowledged: “The Commission preliminarily finds that Microsoft is dominant worldwide available in the market for SaaS (software program as a service) productiveness purposes for skilled use.
“The Commission is concerned that, since at least April 2019, Microsoft has been tying Teams with its core SaaS productivity applications, thereby restricting competition on the market for communication and collaboration products and defending its market position in productivity software and its suites-centric model from competing suppliers of individual software.”
The fee is “concerned” that Microsoft could have granted Teams a distribution benefit by not giving patrons the selection whether or not or to not purchase entry to Teams after they subscribe to their SaaS productiveness purposes.
“This advantage may have been further exacerbated by interoperability limitations between Teams’ competitors and Microsoft’s offerings,” it pressured, including that the conduct could have prevented Teams’ rivals from competing, and in flip innovating, to the detriment of shoppers within the European Economic Area.
Source: www.anews.com.tr