The European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft regarding its Teams platform to address competition concerns.

These commitments involve offering versions of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites without Teams, at a reduced price, and implementing other changes. The decision follows an investigation initiated by a complaint from Slack Technologies (now owned by Salesforce) and a similar complaint from alfaview.

EU regulators had preliminarily determined that Microsoft conferred an undue competitive advantage upon Teams and restricted competition in the market for cloud-based communication and collaboration products by bundling it with productivity applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

While Microsoft unbundled Teams after the EU probe commenced, regulators found the subsequent changes insufficient. Reports had indicated Microsoft was likely to avoid an antitrust fine as the EU regulators were expected to accept its offer.

With information from Reuters