Microsoft unbundles Teams and Office 365 for customers worldwide

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unbundles Teams and Office 365 for customers worldwide

In October,

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unbundled Teams from

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365 and Office 365 suites in the ********* Union and Switzerland to avoid potential fines. Now, the company is expanding this offering, selling

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Teams separately from

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365 and Office 365 worldwide,

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. “Doing so also addresses feedback from the ********* Commission by providing multinational companies more flexibility when they want to standardise their purchasing across geographies,” a

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spokesperson told the publication.

Current users can now choose to keep their current deal or switch to one of the separate offerings — especially helpful for anyone who uses the Office suite but prefers another communication service like Zoom or

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Meet. Commercial customers new to

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’s offerings can pick up Teams on its own for $5.25, while Office sans Teams is going for anywhere from $7.75 to $54.75.

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’s journey to unbundling Teams and Office started in 2020 when Slack filed an antitrust complaint with the EU. The now Salesforce-owned company alleged that it was ******** to include Teams in the Office suite and that

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was blocking customers from removing the chat platform. The ********* Commission has subsequently been investigating this matter, with

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announcing in April 2023 that it would separate Teams from

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35 and Office 365. Though the move went into effect last fall,

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is still at risk of owing the EU a hefty fine if found to have broken antitrust laws.

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