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

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  • The European Commission has approved Microsoft's concessions to address antitrust concerns.
  • The EU accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant position by bundling Teams with its productivity suites.
  • 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 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, as well as let them export their data out of teams.
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]

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