{"id":10949,"date":"2023-07-27T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/27\/eu-opens-antitrust-inquiry-into-microsofts-teams-software\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:37:25","slug":"eu-opens-antitrust-inquiry-into-microsofts-teams-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/27\/eu-opens-antitrust-inquiry-into-microsofts-teams-software\/","title":{"rendered":"EU opens antitrust inquiry into Microsoft\u2019s Teams software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says bundling of app with other products may be anticompetitive<\/p>\n<p>It became one of the hits of remote working during the pandemic, but now the EU has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft\u2019s bundling of its Teams video and chat app with some of its other products.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said the decision to bundle Teams with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages may constitute anticompetitive behaviour. It is the EU\u2019s first antitrust investigation into Microsoft in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2012\/jun\/27\/microsoft-loses-eu-antitrust-fine-appeal\">more than a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/27\/eu-antitrust-inquiry-microsofts-sale-teams-bundling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a74f291984572e802ecd61b87baaa95c6cb9842b\/0_0_2000_1201\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d84435a70e47d5761d307929aee8253e\" title=\"EU opens antitrust inquiry into Microsoft\u2019s Teams software\" \/>European Commission says bundling of app with other products may be anticompetitive<br \/>\nIt became one of the hits of remote working during the pandemic, but now the EU has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft\u2019s bundling of its Teams video and chat app with some of its other products.<br \/>\nThe European Commission said the decision to bundle Teams with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages may constitute anticompetitive behaviour. It is the EU\u2019s first antitrust investigation into Microsoft in more than a decade. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says bundling of app with other products may be anticompetitive It became one of the hits of remote working during the pandemic, but now the EU has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft\u2019s bundling of its Teams video and chat app with some of its other products. The European Commission said the decision &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/27\/eu-opens-antitrust-inquiry-into-microsofts-teams-software\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU opens antitrust inquiry into Microsoft\u2019s Teams software<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}