E.U. Antitrust Over Microsoft Teams and Bundling of Office 365 and Microsoft 365

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The E.U. has opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's bundling of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 to Teams.
Obviously, it's an investigation, and Microsoft will have the opportunity to review this investigation, and alter, if needed. I think the problem might be that people are locked in and can't, perhaps, use other "office-type suites.

Microsoft includes Teams in its well-entrenched cloud-based productivity suites for business customers Office 365 and Microsoft 365. The Commission is concerned that Microsoft may be abusing and defending its market position in productivity software by restricting competition in the European Economic Area (‘EEA') for communication and collaboration products.

In particular, the Commission is concerned that Microsoft may grant Teams a distribution advantage by not giving customers the choice on whether or not to include access to that product when they subscribe to their productivity suites and may have limited the interoperability between its productivity suites and competing offerings.

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Yep,
.. done that..
--their productivity suites and may have limited the interoperability between its productivity suites and competing offerings.--

Dropped a rate from 120 an hour to 90. Increase Dev to Prod time(pay rate) by 25%, easy peasy. Get other productivity software to play with.

It is everywhere now days. Humanoids adjust, again...