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German rival files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft.
German rival alfaview filed a second EU antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday regarding the company's integration of the video app Teams into its Office product. Regulators are already getting ready to launch an inquiry into Microsoft's action. Since 2020, when Slack, a workspace messaging service owned by Salesforce (CRM.N), complained about the integration of Teams with Office, the US software giant has been on the radar of the EU competition watchdog. Alfaview, a 500-person company with headquarters in Karlsruhe, South-Western Germany, said it had submitted a similar complaint to the European Commission. Teams gain a distinct competitive advantage by bundling both items, which is unjustified by performance and which rivals cannot duplicate, it claimed. The competition in has been significantly and permanently impacted by