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The European Commission on Tuesday told Microsoft that it suspects the company may have violated anti-trust law by bundling its Teams messenger software with the Microsoft Office suite. As the European Union’s anti-trust enforcer, the commission objects to bundling when it believes a company is exploiting its dominance in one market to gain an advantage in another. In this case, Microsoft is dominant in the market for what the commission calls “productivity software,” meaning word processors like Microsoft Word and spreadsheet tools like Excel. But the commission is arguing that Teams competes…

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