The European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams. These commitments will henceforth be legally binding under EU antitrust rules.
The commitments address the Commission’s concerns related to the tying of Microsoft Teams to the company’s popular productivity applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, included in its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for business customers.
Under the commitments, Microsoft will (i) make available versions of these suites without Teams and at a reduced price; (ii) allow customers with long-term licenses to switch to suites without Teams; (iii) provide interoperability for key functionalities between communication and collaboration tools that compete with Teams and certain Microsoft products; and (iv) allow customers to move their data out of Teams to facilitate the use of competing solutions.
Källa: Commission accepts commitments offered by Microsoft to address competition concerns related to Teams
