Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365

Re:Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams... by hotshiitake on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:21AM (#36786835)

> And a chat app is very much not out of place in an office productivity suite. I have to say, I don't understand the merits of this case at all.

The article talks about M365/O365, but I suspect the bigger issue might be that Microsoft includes Teams Personal (WebView) in Windows 11. From what I understand this version will eventually reach feature parity with Teams for Work & School (Electron)

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-teams-version...

It's not clear to me if Teams Personal will be kept as a separate app, or if the new features will just be subscription-gated from that version. Either way I can see why competitors and regulators might be a bit concerned about it.

Side note - I really hate Microsoft's product naming. Finding resources about all these different versions of Teams is such a pain, not to mention how confusing it is for end users.

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Re:Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams... by vel0city on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:12AM (#36787782)

> It's not clear to me if Teams Personal will be kept as a separate app

It's pretty clear if you use the Teams preview version. It already is a unified app in the Preview. You can sign in with a work and a personal account at the same time.

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