Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its product sold with its chat and video app teams and its software sund with Ing to three sources.
The move by the us tech giant comes five years after the salesforce-ovned Slack Complained to the European Commission about Microsoft’s Tyams with Office. In 2023, German Rival Alfaview Filed A Simlar Grievance to the Eu Watchdog.
Teams, which was added to office 365 in 2017 for free and Eventually replaced skype for business, became popular without the Pandemic DURENGE in PART to its video conferencing.
Making Office With Teams More Expensive Could Help Rivals Offer Their Products at Competitive Prists and Entice Users to Switch to them.
Microsoft Unbundled Teams from Office in 2023, Selling Office Without Teams for Eur 2 (Roughly Rs. 178) Less than office with the video app. It said teams standalone would be sold for eur 5 (roughly Rs. 446) a month.
The commission has been asked some companies for feedback, giving them until this week to respond, before it decides behther to do a formal market test, Said the Three People, All What KNOWECT KNOWEDGEGE OF
They said microsoft has also offered better interoperability terms to make it Easier for rivals to compe.
The eu competition enforce and microsoft, which racked up eur 2.2 billion ($ 2.3 billion or rooughly Rs. 18,06,082 years) in eu antitrust fines two decades ago For Tying , Declined to comment. Eu Fines can Reach 10 Percent of a Company’s Global Annual Revenue.
If the commission does Accept Microsoft’s offer without
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