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Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (www.reuters.com)

submitted 8 months ago by cloudless@lemmy.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Would you happen to have a source that you could link on that please? I've been trying to see if it affects us since I read the Ars Technica story this morning. We have been getting Teams historically with the Office 365 E3 license that comes with our Action Pack sub.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, it wasn’t a verified response, just one of those “well this is most likely how Microsoft will deal with it” things.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 13 points 8 months ago

I suspect you're correct, but I'd like to see it in black and white. I wear a number of hats and one of them makes me answerable to questions like "Why has my Teams stopped working?"

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If this works like how they did it here in Europe, where this change happened last year, then this won't affect existing tenants, other than also getting a standalone teams sku available.

On new tenants created after the change took effect however, there will be no sku with teams bundled available, only the standalone teams sku and teams less E3/E5 skus.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

That makes sense. Thank you for replying. 👍