Microsoft Adjusts Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Penalty

Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its Office product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its software sold without the app in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine, according to three sources.

The move by the U.S. tech giant comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft’s tying of Teams with Office. In 2023, German rival alfaview filed a similar grievance to the EU watchdog.

Read more at Reuters.