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"Can I make a standalone Excel competitor and then claim Microsoft is anti-competitive for "bundling" Excel?" That's not a fair comparison. Imagine that there
by dahwolf 3y ago
"Can I make a standalone Excel competitor and then claim Microsoft is anti-competitive for "bundling" Excel?"
That's not a fair comparison.
Imagine that there is no Excel, instead one awesome company making a standalone work sheet product that is widely popular.
Next, Microsoft lags behind, comes up with a clone of it and bundles it for free as part of Office.
That's anti-competitive.
- spacebanana7 3y agoIn this case Microsoft had a chat app several years before Slack was created. Admittedly, it was rebranded and upgraded a few times - however Skype for Business had group chats before Teams came out.
- dahwolf 3y agoIf I'm not mistaken, Microsoft's chat apps were never part of Office. That's the issue at hand. Microsoft is not forbidden from making competing products, it's forbidden from misusing a dominant market position in A to seize the market in B.
- spacebanana7 3y agoAccording to the top level comment in this thread those chat apps were bundled in office. user: llimos > there has been a chat app as part of Office since 2007
- dahwolf 3y agoI'm old. I've used every single version of Office both at home and in the Office and none came supplied with a chat app. The only exception at one point being Skype for Business, but I'm fuzzy as to whether this was a default or optional package.
- vel0city 3y agoOffice Communicator came out in 2007. Hard to say "Office Communicator" has no relationship to Office. That's six years before slack's initial release.