( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “workplace messaging software.” Microsoft will stop packaging its Teams videoconferencing app with its Office software in Europe in an effort to head off antitrust penalties by regulators. [CutID: <Cuts> MICROSOFT-EUROPE-house-q-FRIam.mp3 Time: 27s Title: MICROSOFT-EUROPE-house-q-FRIam Out-cue: workplace messaging software] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. ——————————— VERBATIM: The U.S. tech […]
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Microsoft to stop packaging Teams and Office software in Europe to head off EU antitrust action
( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “workplace messaging software.”
Microsoft will stop packaging its Teams videoconferencing app with its Office software in Europe in an effort to head off antitrust penalties by regulators.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: The U.S. tech company also said it would take steps to make it easier for competing products to work with its software. The announcement comes a month after the EU’s executive Commission opened a formal investigation over concerns that bundling Teams with Office gives it an unfair edge over competitors. The investigation was triggered by a complaint filed in 2020 by rival Slack Technologies, maker of popular workplace messaging software.