2y ago

Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concerns

www.theverge.com

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So my boss won't have to pay me for Microsoft Office, even though I can't use it on Linux? I suppose that's a win
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Today we are announcing proactive changes that we hope will start to address these concerns in a meaningful way, even while the European Commission’s investigation continues and we cooperate with it,” says Nanna-Louise Linde, VP of Microsoft european government affairs.
“These changes will impact our Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites for business customers in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.”
The unbundling means that enterprise customers in EU markets will be able to purchase Microsoft 365 subscriptions at a lower monthly price without Teams, or have to buy a standalone version of Teams at a list price of €5 per month or €60 per year.
“We will instead simply sell these offerings without Teams at a lower price (€2 less per month or €24 per year),” explains Linde.
“We believe these changes balance the interests of our competitors with those of European business customers, providing them with access to the best possible solutions at competitive prices,” says Linde.
We will continue to engage with the Commission, listen to concerns in the marketplace, and remain open to exploring pragmatic solutions that benefit both customers and developers in Europe.”
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- Nice, that means more businesses will finally be able to escape the total microsoft dependence and just use the products they need.
  
  You mean Microsoft will recoup the cost of unbundling by charging more per product compared to the previous bundle, given that it's now different products?
  'cause at work the powers that be has gone all-in on MS and this decision won't change a bit their "strategy".
  
  One can hope.
- good bot
The unbundling is largely targeted at enterprises, as Microsoft will keep bundling Teams in its Microsoft 365 Business plans that are offered to small businesses.
¿que?
They seem to have failed to address one major issue. You can't have teams working with a domain and a non Office 365 email service, that's a bummer and the only way to get around it is to use funky addresses on teams like person@company.onmicrosoft.com. This is simply an anti-competitive practice from Microsoft to force companies into Office 365 E-mail. There's no technical reason for this.
So we'll have to assign and pay for teams licencing now?
Can you easily have multiple tenants open at once yet? My company will be adopting it until then because we work with clients that also use teams.
It's force installed with Windows, this doesn't seem like news.
- That's actually a different Microsoft teams. Not the same thing...

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