Microsoft escapes EU antitrust fine after unbundling Teams

Microsoft is no longer in trouble with the European Commission, at least when it comes to the difference. The Committee accepted the changes and obligations made by the company in response to its fears related to the assembly of Microsoft from its team’s cooperation platform with its other applications. This anti -monopoly story started years ago when a complaint was filed to combat monopoly against Microsoft, claiming that she illegally gathered a working chat competitor with the famous Office Pavilion. The committee opened an official investigation into the matter in 2023 and found in 2024 that Microsoft had already violated the anti -monopoly laws.

The committee said at that time: “Microsoft may have given the teams a distribution feature by not giving customers the option whether or not the teams will be accessed when they subscribe to their SAAS productivity requests.” “This feature may have been exacerbated by the bodies of inter -operating between the competitors of the difference and the Microsoft shows.” The company was facing a fine of 10 percent of its annual rotation around the world.

Even before the committee published its initial discovery, Microsoft has already dismantled the difference from the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 wings around the European Union. However, the committee found that the changes made by “insufficient to address its fears.” So Microsoft has made many obligations to avoid a fine, including customers in Europe from the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 wings without difference. These versions are sold at a significant price less.

The committee tested those obligations between May and June this year. In response to the results of the committee test, Microsoft increased the difference in the price between the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 wings with the difference and those that do not contain 50 percent. The company must also display wings options without a difference if it announces its wings options using the correspondence application. The committee wrote: “The obligations offered by Microsoft will remain valid for seven years, with the exception of the obligations related to the ability to operate and the ability to transfer the data that will remain valid for ten years,” the committee wrote. The guardian will monitor the Microsoft app and will make sure that it is still a reality for its obligations during this time frame.