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  • Slack filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft Teams in the EU

    Slack is a well-known team session and knowledge management tool in the industry. Microsoft Teams is the latest communication tool developed by Microsoft to support team sessions.

    During the coronavirus epidemic, the number of users of Microsoft Teams skyrocketed, and a large number of companies used the software as a team video call and instant messaging tool for remote office work.

    However, this week Slack announced an antitrust complaint to Microsoft Teams in the European Union. The company accused Microsoft of bundling sales to disrupt fair competition in the market.

    Microsoft positions Microsoft Teams as a productivity tool and office software, so it is bundled with Microsoft Office and provided to enterprises by default.

    “Slackはじめました” by Hideya Aita is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

    And after the enterprise purchases and deploys the Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams will be installed by default and the tool cannot be uninstalled directly.

    Slack believes that Microsoft’s approach is to force the installation of Microsoft Teams on millions of computers, and companies do not know how much the software costs.

    Through this subtle approach, if the company really needs communication tools, it is very likely to use Microsoft Teams because it has been forcibly installed.

    This will be a serious blow to competitors such as Slack. Slack believes that Microsoft should separate Microsoft Teams and sell them separately.

    In response to this antitrust complaint, the European Commission issued a statement stating that it has confirmed that it has received Slack’s complaint against Microsoft. The commission will investigate according to standard procedures.

    After the investigation results are available, they will be announced in time. The current task is to collect evidence against the relevant parties of the complaint and determine whether the complained party has anti-competitive behavior.

    Microsoft previously stated that the number of monthly active users of Microsoft Teams has reached 75 million, but Microsoft has not announced the total number of daily active users of the tool.

    Via: TechCrunch

  • Microsoft will add custom background for Teams soon

    At the Build 2019 conference, Microsoft announced a new feature of Microsoft Teams for video calls. This feature uses artificial intelligence to replace your background during video calls with the background image of your custom settings in real-time.

    Since then, Microsoft seems to have forgotten this feature and has not pushed it to users. At present, users can only use the “background blur” function during video calls.

    Today, in a Microsoft Teams User Voice page, when responding to users’ questions about when to load the picture as a background instead of a blur background in Teams video chat, Microsoft Team said that they are still developing this feature, which means they have not cut it off.

    Alex from the Microsoft Teams engineering team said that they will officially release the feature in the next three months and will share more information about this feature in the near future.

    Alex said that “Thanks for your feedback – the increase in votes recently has been noticed. We are working on this feature and are hoping to release within a quarter. We’ll share more updates as we get closer to the release.” But fortunately, this user’s feedback has been supported by many users (currently there are 748 votes), otherwise, I am afraid that the Microsoft Teams team will not care about this user’s opinions.

    Via: mspoweruser