Microsoft facing UK antitrust lawsuit from Slack over Teams ’bundling’

LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Salesforce and its workspace messaging app Slack are suing Microsoft at London’s High Court over alleged anticompetitive practices relating to its Teams app. Slack Technologies LLC and related companies filed the lawsuit on April 23, which a Slack spokesperson said was "because Microsoft’s practices harmed competition, using tying and bundling of Teams to limit customer choice". A Microsoft spokesperson said the case lacks merit. "Slack’s lackluster growth, compared to Zoom and Teams, was based on inferior capabilities when COVID-19 hit in 2020, and had nothing to do with Microsoft," the spokesperson added.

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