The EU’s antitrust regulator said it had sent Microsoft a statement of objections outlining its finding that the company had given its Teams communications service an unfair advantage by bundling it with subscriptions to Office 365 and Microsoft 365, the suite of software-as-a-service ...
The company views Teams as an integral element of its range software offerings and the importance of the app has grown exponentially since the pandemic forced office workers into remote working—a habit that holds today. Microsoft would be loath to see Teams's shine diminished and is likely to ...
The European Commission, based on itspreliminary findings, has informed Microsoft that the company has violated EU antitrust rules by tying its communication and collaboration service, ‘Teams’, to its software suites, Office 365 and Microsoft 365. If found guilty, Microsoft could potentially ...
Slack complaints against Teams trigger EU investigation Even though Microsoft’s Teams is the software of choice for many firms that are already leveraging Microsoft’s suite of products, let’s not forget about other competitors such as Slack and Zoom. The people behind Slack have always been di...
Microsoft’s intention to sit down with the EU and find a solution in this way fits in with the new strategy of the Redmond-based software giant. Until now, Microsoft preferred to hold its own, resulting in antitrust c...
In total, Microsoft has racked up more than €2 billion ($2.1 billion) in EU fines for antitrust abuses, but it has largely avoided more rigorous antitrust scrutiny over its behavior in recent years, with Google taking most of the flak over how it has abused its dominance. ...
Microsoft, which last faced an EU antitrust investigation more than a decade ago, is also trying to save its$69 billion purchase ofvideo game maker Activision. That deal was cleared by the Commission, but has been bogged down in Britain. ...
Microsoft is extending a move it’s already taken in the European Union (EU) to unbundle its Teams collaboration app from its Microsoft Office suite for global customers in a bid to avoid further antitrust scrutiny or litigation, both in Europe and abroad. The company said Monda...
Microsoft says it's unbundling Teams for business customers in Europe and improving Office interoperability for rival software vendors in a proactive
few years, cloud service providers in France, Italy, Germany, and Denmark have filed similar complaints with the European Commission about Microsoft’s unfair licensing practices. Microsoft has alsoreportedly agreedto stop bundling Microsoft Teams with its Office suite to avoid an EU antitrust probe....