Microsoft slips unscathed through EU competition probe after promising to unbundle Teams | TechCrunch

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News Summary
- Microsoft has agreed to unbundle Teams from its Office productivity suites.
- The EU accused the tech giant of abusing its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office 365.
- Microsoft has promised that for the next seven years, it will provide Microsoft 365 and Office 365 without Teams at a lower price.
- The Commission has also managed to get Microsoft to open up its APIs to enable interoperability for key features between its suite and third-party messaging and collaboration tools.
- The approval is a win-win for both the EU and Microsoft, especially because there was no legal battle.
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 Commissi [+2947 chars]