- The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, states that Microsoft did “horrible things” to loosen before its acquisition
- Benioff accused Microsoft of executing his own play book
- The Operai association could be becoming a competition
The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, criticized the story of Microsoft with Slack, warning that it can repeat its anti -competitive tactics used against the online collaboration platform in its association with Openai.
Benioff declared that Microsoft had done “horrible things” to grieve before Salesforce acquired it in 2020, referring to a “play book” of things that could reopen to the detriment of Openai.
Slack filed a complaint against Microsoft for its team group in the Microsoft 365 suite, which was undone in 2024, but that clearly has not prevented Benioff wanting to get the last word.
Salesforce’s fight with Microsoft continues
In statements to the CEO of Saastr, Jason Lemkin, in a recent video podcast, Benioff explained: “You can see the horrible things that Microsoft did to afflict before buying it.”
“That was quite bad and they were executing their play book and did many dark things,” he added … “That play book should be torn and thrown.”
Benioff also attracted parallel to Microsoft’s behavior during browser rooms of the 1990s with Netscape.
He described Microsoft as a “company that wants to own everything, control everything,” accusing Nadella’s company to collect new companies and execute her own play book.
Microsoft’s billions of dollars in investment in Openai put it in a good place for an association to use its GPT models, but more recently, a change in the association saw reduced exclusivity rights for Microsoft, which has supposedly been exploring the use of different models to boost Microsoft 365 Copilot, a movement not confirmed at this stage.
“In the case of Openai, an association will become a competition,” said Benioff.
