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Re:Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft by nojito on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:26AM (#23917341)
How is buying a productivity suite anti-competitive?

There is nothing stopping businesses from using Slack.

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Re:Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft by mortehu on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:26AM (#23918021)
You can't pay for Excel without also paying for Teams. Why would you pay for two team chat solutions?

Teams is not actually free for people who don't want the rest of Office.

That being said, I don't this should be illegal.

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Re:Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft by topkai22 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @12:17PM (#23918604)
There is a free version of Teams now: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...

Office web apps also have free tiers, although I don't know if there are business licensing restrictions.

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Re:Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft by IshKebab on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:43AM (#23917542)
Microsoft have a monopoly on office software. All businesses more or less have to buy Microsoft Office. Microsoft bundles Teams for free with it.

There is something stopping businesses from using Slack - the fact that Microsoft gives them Teams for free.

To be honest I doubt this will be a successful case. Companies get away with this all the time. I think the Windows/IE case is the only instance I've ever heard of something coming from it.

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