The company's Redmond has announced that it will provide the Teams separately from Office 365 and Microsoft 365 days all around the world. The application of the talks and meetings, is now available, particularly in Europe from October 1, 2023, and as a potential solution to investigate antitrust initiated by the European Commission at the end of June 2023.
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Microsoft said Teams in the management of its productivity, in 2017, to replace Skype for Business. The service became very popular during the pandemisë COVID-19, as the user, can stay easily in touch with co-workers. This is closely related are considered illegal by the competitor directly to Slack.
After a complaint filed in the year 2020, the European Commission initiated an investigation at the end of July, 2023 (the proceedings are still in progress). Microsoft is that it has been abused by his position strong in the market of software for productivity, for the benefit of the Teams and to limit the interoperability with the offerings of rival.
A spokesperson for Microsoft said:
In order to provide transparency to our customers, we extend the measures that we took last year to separate the Teams for the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 in the European Economic Area and Switzerland to the clients globally. In this way, we address also the response from the European Commission, serving multinational me a lot of flexibility when they want to standardize their purchases through the arts of language.
Starting today, existing customers can keep their subscription to their current or to pass on the offer to the other. Clients of the new location that you can register for a subscription without the Teams (it costs between 7,75 and 54,75 of dollars per month per user), and the independent Teams in the cost 5,25 of dollars per month, per user. However, it is not certain that such a solution would also allow Microsoft to avoid a fine (up to 10% of the annual revenue of the global).
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