Microsoft Fends Off EU Antitrust Probe With Teams Deal
- Company offers to unbundle Teams from other business software
- EU investigating if Microsoft’s bundling broke antitrust law
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Microsoft Corp. tried to ward off further European Union antitrust scrutiny of its Teams video-conferencing app by offering to split the program from a broader business software package.
Nanna-Louise Linde, Microsoft’s vice-president for European government affairs, said in a blog post on Thursday that from Oct. 1, Microsoft will unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 across Europe.