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EU finds Microsoft violated antirust laws by bundling Teams (www.engadget.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

EU antitrust enforcement: foreign labor doing the jobs Americans won't.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They were pumping the stock and trying to kill Slack (WORK) at the time before Slack merged with Salesforce (CRM)

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell, Microsoft tried to hold off these anti-trust lawsuits by intentionally making the interoperability and feature-parity between its products shockingly bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That's not a bug, that's a feature!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

MS execs right now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

give us Skype

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

*A well programmed teams

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

no I meant giving Skype to the fediverse or something

[+] [email protected] -37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh look, the EU making teams harder to use. I'm sure slack and workspaces will bring down that price any day now 🙄

Pointless move for political points.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let me guess. You're an American?

In Europe we have rules, regulations and consumer protections because our respective countries and the collective union actually give a shit about the people that live here.

[+] [email protected] -23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Help! MS gives us chat with good integration with its other services, I'm being assaulted!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Did you even read what this is about?

The European Commission used its statement to detail its concern "that Microsoft may have granted Teams a distribution advantage by not giving customers the choice whether or not to acquire access to Teams when they subscribe to their SaaS productivity applications. This advantage may have been further exacerbated by interoperability limitations between Teams' competitors and Microsoft's offerings. The conduct may have prevented Teams' rivals from competing, and in turn innovating, to the detriment of customers in the European Economic Area."

[–] namingthingsiseasy 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I doubt that you're interested in arguing in good faith, but if by some miracle you do care about having an informed opinion before opening your mouth, how would you respond to things like this?

This essentially killed my (EU-based) startup in the project management and collaborate space. Before MSFT bundled Teams with O365 we were rapidly growing and closing enterprise customers in the automotive, energy and education industries with high retention rates. Right around the time the Teams bundling started our retention dropped, churn went through the roof, growth slowed down, we failed to raise our next round because of it and had to drastically downsize the company, causing even more churn (about 80% net churn in 2 years). This move by the EU is good, but too little too late - 99% of the companies that were hurt by this have already shut down, and the ones still running will take years to recover...