{"id":1005227,"date":"2026-04-28T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005227"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:42:05","slug":"microsoft-facing-uk-antitrust-lawsuit-from-slack-over-teams-bundling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/microsoft-facing-uk-antitrust-lawsuit-from-slack-over-teams-bundling\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft facing UK antitrust lawsuit from Slack over Teams &#8216;bundling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Salesforce and its workspace messaging app Slack are suing Microsoft at London&#8217;s High Court over alleged anticompetitive practices relating to its Teams app. <\/p>\n<p>Slack Technologies LLC and \u200crelated companies \u2060filed \u2060the lawsuit on April 23, which a Slack spokesperson said was &#8220;because Microsoft&#8217;s practices harmed competition, using tying and bundling of Teams to limit customer choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Salesforce and its workspace messaging app Slack are suing Microsoft at London&#8217;s High Court over alleged anticompetitive practices relating to its Teams app. Slack Technologies LLC and \u200crelated companies \u2060filed \u2060the lawsuit on April 23, which a Slack spokesperson said was &#8220;because Microsoft&#8217;s practices harmed competition, using tying and bundling of Teams to limit customer choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005257,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005227\/revisions\/1005257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}