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Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's supposed to reduce how much a company can leverage their market dominance in one market to get an unfair advantage in another one.

See how Amazon places their products (ex. Backpacks) in more prominent positions on their dominant market. Here the unfair advantage is that if a company is already using Microsoft Office and it comes bundled with Teams (for "free") what chance would Slack or other comm systems have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Teams sucks. I would gladly pay for ANYTHING else vs using it even for free.