Microsoft is No more trouble Related to the European Commission, at least in terms of the team. The committee has accepted The company has made changes and commitments in response to its concerns related to Microsoft’s team collaboration platform bundled with other applications. This particular antitrust legend began a few years ago Slack filed antitrust complaint Oppose Microsoft, claiming it bundles its work chat competitors with the popular Office Suite. The committee has been opened Formal investigation Enter this in 2023 and discover in 2024 that Microsoft is indeed the case Violation of antitrust law.
“Microsoft may grant the team an allocation advantage by not giving customers the choice team to subscribe to SaaS productivity applications,” the committee said at the time. “This advantage may further exacerbate this advantage due to the interoperability limitations between team competitors and Microsoft’s products.” The company faces good equivalent to 10% of its annual global turnover.
Even before the committee released its initial discovery, Microsoft had already Bundle Teams from Office 365 and Microsoft 365 productivity suites are spread throughout the EU. However, the Commission found that the changes in its implementation “were not sufficient to address its concerns.” So Microsoft made several commitments to avoid fines, including providing European clients with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites, without a team. These versions are sold at “lower prices.” The company also promises not to offer discount rates for teams or suites that include teams. Microsoft also puts its team’s competitors “effective interoperability” with some of its products and services and allows them to embed Office applications into their own products. Additionally, it allows customers in Europe to extract their team messaging data for competition services.
The committee tested these commitments between May and June this year. In response to the committee’s test results, Microsoft further increased the price difference between the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites and the team and the Office 365 suites without 50%. The company also has to present the suite options without a team if it advertises its suite options through the messaging app. “The commitment provided by Microsoft will remain for seven years, except for the commitments related to interoperability and data portability that will last for ten years,” the committee wrote. The trustees will monitor Microsoft’s implementation and ensure that its commitments within that time frame remain the same.
