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

Re:Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams... by dahwolf on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:55AM (#36787462)

If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft's chat apps were never part of Office. That's the issue at hand. Microsoft is not forbidden from making competing products, it's forbidden from misusing a dominant market position in A to seize the market in B.

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Re:Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams... by vel0city on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:10AM (#36787757)

Office Communicator came out in 2007. Hard to say "Office Communicator" has no relationship to Office. That's six years before slack's initial release.

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Re:Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams... by spacebanana7 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:08AM (#36787715)

According to the top level comment in this thread those chat apps were bundled in office.

user: llimos > there has been a chat app as part of Office since 2007

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Re:Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams... by dahwolf on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:09PM (#36791639)

I'm old. I've used every single version of Office both at home and in the Office and none came supplied with a chat app. The only exception at one point being Skype for Business, but I'm fuzzy as to whether this was a default or optional package.

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