Microsoft Set to Dodge EU Fine with Offer to Unbundle Teams

My employer just switched from Teams to Slack. Vast improvement in every respect.

you’re missing the point, if it’s a paid add on instead of bundled it won’t be using one monopoly to aid another.

Other competitors will be considered on their merits.

I’ve never seen a company use teams for any reason other than they already have it for free.

And the thought of paying for something that you already have is unthinkable to a CFO… and CFOs tend to run the IT department for some reason.

Google was ordered to stop linking Google Maps from location searches. Some people framed it as the EU forcing pointless extra work on people because you just type in maps.google.com and the same search again. But the thing is, it's fair now: you can just as easily type in maps.apple.com or something else. It's equal effort no matter who you choose for maps, so the market is no longer manipulated.

Same thing here. You could pay Microsoft for Teams but you could also pay someone else for something like Teams, and the friction should be identical, enabling market competition again.