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Microsoft to unbundle Teams to appease EU competition worries

Tech giant to also make it easier for competing apps to be interoperable in bid to stop Brussels’ antitrust probe

Microsoft will remove the videoconferencing app Teams from its Office software and make it easier for competing apps to be interoperable with its systems in a bid to stop the EU from pressing ahead with an antitrust probe over alleged uncompetitive behaviour.

The concessions announced on Thursday come weeks after the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, opened an investigation into Microsoft and three years after Slack, now owned by Salesforce, formally complained to Brussels about its rival.

Teams will still be available for customers to buy standalone at €5 a month or €60 a year, Microsoft vice-president of European government affairs Nanna-Louise Linde said in a blog post.

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