2023-08-31 09:31:49
While an investigation tries to determine if Microsoft has used its dominant position to promote the development of Teams, the company announces that it is dissociating the platform from its software.
The Microsoft group announced on Thursday that it would separate your Teams video conferencing application from your office software Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook to appease the European Commission.
The institution suspects the American giant of having abused its dominant position in software to promote the growth of Teams to the detriment of competitors. She opened an investigation in July.
The business started three years ago, in July 2020, by a complaint from the American start-up Slackmeanwhile acquired by Salesforce.
Customers will be able to buy Microsoft’s software without Teams at a lower price, starting October 1.
Heavy fine possible
If these suspicions are true, the American tech giant, already sanctioned several times by the European Unionmight be subject to a new heavy fine.
In order to respond to the concerns of the European competition watchdogMicrosoft will unbundle Teams from its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites in the European Economic Area and Switzerland from 1is October, said Nanna-Louise Linde, vice president of the company. Customers will now be able to buy the software without Teams at a lower priceshe clarified.
“We are announcing proactive changes which we hope will begin to address these concerns in a meaningful way, even as the European Commission’s investigation continues and we cooperate with them,” Linde wrote in a post. of blogging.
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