EU opens antitrust inquiry into Microsoft’s Teams software

European Commission says bundling of app with other products may be anti-competitive

It became one of the hits of remote working during the Covid pandemic, but now the EU has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s bundling of its Teams video and chat app with some of its other products.

The European Commission said the decision to bundle Teams to its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages may constitute anti-competitive behaviour. It is the EU’s first antitrust investigation into Microsoft in more than a decade.