US Edition
Microsoft agrees to unbundle Teams from Office in landmark EU settlement
9 Articles
9 Articles
Morning Docket: 09.15.25 - Above the Law
* Lawyer accused of hallucinated cites in case about getting law license back. [ABA Journal] * FTC sees collapse of CFPB as a new opportunity to oversee the fleecing of Americans. [Bloomberg Law News] * EU allowing Microsoft to remove Teams from its product bundle to avoid antitrust issues, opening the door to your European colleagues having a teleconference tool that works. [Law360] * Judge extends block on government randomly deporting kids in…
Microsoft agrees to unbundle Teams from Office in landmark EU settlement
Microsoft has settled with European Union regulators to decouple its Teams messaging and videoconferencing service from its Office productivity suites, marking the end of a years-long antitrust investigation in Brussels.Read Entire Article
Microsoft has escaped a European Union fine for abuse of dominant position related to its Videoconferencing Teams application. The group committed itself to dissociating it very clearly from its office automation tools such as Word, Excel and Outlook, among a series of commitments. These commitments "respond to the concerns raised by the Commission due to the links between Microsoft Teams and the very popular office automation applications Word,…
Microsoft has agreed to separate Teams from Office 365 to avoid fines the European Commission was planning to impose on the giant. The article "Microsoft Agrees to Separate Teams from Office 365" comes from Everything That Matters.
Microsoft Avoids EU Antitrust Fine by Unbundling Teams from Office
Microsoft has sidestepped a potentially massive fine from European Union regulators by committing to unbundle its Teams collaboration software from its Office productivity suite, marking a significant resolution to a years-long antitrust investigation. The deal, announced this week, ends a probe that began in 2020 following a complaint from Slack, now owned by Salesforce, which accused the tech giant of leveraging its dominance in office softwar…
Microsoft Escapes EU Competition Probe by Unbundling Teams for Seven Years, Opening API
TechCrunch reports: Thanks to a pledge to unbundle its corporate messaging app Teams from its productivity suites, Microsoft has managed to slip unscathed through a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in massive fines for the tech giant. The Commission on Friday okayed Microsoft's concessions to address the EU's competition concerns over the company including Teams along with the rest of its Office p…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 50% of the sources lean Left, 50% of the sources are Center
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
