Microsoft will lower the price of Office 365 without teams of the platform, avoiding finely antitrust in the EU

Microsoft agreed to sell Office 365 apartments without teams for a significantly lower price than previously, ending the European Union’s dispute with a five-year European Union with weak and avoiding the EU’s fine.

Giant Gigant It is accused of violating antitrust antitrust In June 2024. For packaging teams with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The dispute began in July 2020. year, when he was loose (now owned by sales), the guidance of Microsoft conducted the “illegal and anti-competitive practice of his market dominance” Team news “in his market-dominant office apartment package” on pants “.

Microsoft must comply with the EU agreement at least seven years, or contrary to confrontation. Head of EU competition Teresa Ribera said The agreement “opens competition in this critical market and ensures that companies are free to choose communication and product for cooperation that best suits their needs.”

Microsoft’s agreement should translate into significant cost savings for office / Microsoft 365 customers. The difference in price between apartments with teams and they will not fall for an additional 50%. Price reduction will take place in the EU, but can be extended worldwide.

Other changes will include:

• Customers with long-term permits can move on to licenses that do not include teams.
• Competitive competitors (such as Slaack, Google Meet and Zoom will have interoperability with office software such as Word and Excel.
• Customers can transfer their data from teams if they want to move to another communication platform.

The announcement of the EU “sends a clear message: Microsoft’s anti-casing teams was applied by a company, denied the Customer Fair, and resulted in long-term lost competition,” said Friday on Friday.

Time will say whether EU-Microsoft agreement will significantly tilt the shell towards the position and beyond teams. 2024 years, teams had five times more monthly users as weak and brought $ 8 billion incomeIt roughly double doubled what is anticipated to bring into this year.