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Re:Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:51AM (#29648090)
As an anecdote I know of a certain top-100 company that ditched their in-house competitor to Teams because MS made them a sweeter O365 deal. For a time management forced them to use Teams even though they were still developing AND licensing the in-house competitor to other companies.

MS is really aggressive with Teams marketing (specially for large bureaucratic enterprise) and I could totally see them doing what you mention.

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Re:Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities by deadbunny on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:18AM (#29648261)
The problem is that Slack (paid for) is hard to argue for vs. Teams when Teams is basically free if you already use o365. Management just see that chat app X is costing us XXk/year when Teams is "free". Easy savings.
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Re:Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities by jevoten on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:44AM (#29648506)
Discounting a different product to kill competition? I'm no antitrust expert, but isn't that illegal? If not, it should be.
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Re:Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities by AshamedCaptain on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:56PM (#29666373)
No, it would be abuse of dominant position; it is illegal only if you are in a dominant position to begin with.
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Re:Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities by rapsey on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:25AM (#29648315)
And this is why MS is the king of enterprise.
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Re:Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities by wayoutthere on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:59AM (#29648689)
Yeah I’ve always maintained that MS is an enterprise software company that cosplays a consumer software company from time to time. They don’t make a ton of money outside their enterprise software division; the rest of the company more or less breaks even.
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