• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The move follows a three-year saga that began when Slack filed an antitrust complaint against its competitor, claiming that including Teams in these bundles was illegal and that Microsoft was blocking some people from getting rid of the program.

    The tech giant finally agreed to separate Teams from its productivity suites earlier this year but said it was “unclear” how it would happen.

    Then, in July, the European Commission appeared to get tired of waiting and launched a probe into whether bundling Teams into productivity suites was in defiance of EU competition rules.

    Starting October 1st, Microsoft 365 and Office 365 should each be available for €2 less per month or €24 across the whole year for customers in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland.

    However, Microsoft claims that any frontline workers or small business owners in the region will still have the option to include Teams in their purchase.

    Microsoft also says it will create additional support resources to direct developers to public APIs and address questions from users, such as how their data is being transferred from Teams.


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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      This summary is missing that the bundle with Teams becomes €3 more expensive.

      Existing customers keep paying the same price.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, let Microsoft suck up all the data across your business for free, or don’t pay and keep your data private.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t these guys learn?

    In a similar affair, they were forced to unb(l)unde® Internet Explorer from the OS and provide a tool to help the user choose their preferred web browser during install/first startup.

    Now this.

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      1 year ago

      They never fully implemented it, you cannot disable Internet explorer…it will find it’s way back for something else.

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          Yes I assumed there was more in depth ways of disabling it but every uninstaller and plan I followed would still have it open up for certain things.