Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
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As a side note, because I don't know how American antitrust laws work, maybe someone can explain:
They are "separating" the products, but it's still all owned by Microsoft. So what's the intended effect here? There is still the global megacorp you can't escape in control of both. How does this harm the "trust" that's supposed to be fought with "antitrust" laws?
It's supposed to reduce how much a company can leverage their market dominance in one market to get an unfair advantage in another one.
See how Amazon places their products (ex. Backpacks) in more prominent positions on their dominant market. Here the unfair advantage is that if a company is already using Microsoft Office and it comes bundled with Teams (for "free") what chance would Slack or other comm systems have?
Teams sucks. I would gladly pay for ANYTHING else vs using it even for free.