The European Commission has accepted Microsoft’s commitments to Teams, saving a fine for unfair competition, as announced by the EU executive.
According to the commitments, Microsoft will disposed of releases of Office Packets 365 and Microsoft 365 Without Teams and at a reduced price, including changes.
Nanna-Louise Linde, Microsoft Vice President for European Government Affairs, said: “We appreciate the dialogue with the committee that has led to this agreement and now we are turning to the immediate and complete implementation of these new obligations.”
EU regulators opened a survey following a complaint by Slack Technologies Inc, and the German competitive company Alfaview also filed a similar complaint.
The preliminary decision of the regulators was that Microsoft had granted In the teams unjustified advantage and he had limit competition In the market for cloud -based communication and cooperation products. The way, according to the complaint was to connects the teams with productivity applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Source :Skai
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