Frustrating that MS is being forced to do this. They already offered separate Teams licenses (but not separate Office licenses). So the EU is saying that they can bundle word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, chat, calling, video conferencing, storage (OneDrive), group sites (SharePoint), but not Teams. Note that Skype for Business had always done chat, calling, and video conferencing and had always been part of Office for Enterprise, which is the only customer group affected by this.
It's clearly absurd.
What did Teams add over Skype for Business and SharePoint, other than a different UI? It included an improved collaboration UI, far simpler and more intuitive than SharePoint, but in terms of new functions that hadn't been included for years, what changed?
The ONLY thing that changed is that with Teams, they finally made it user friendly enough that people started using it over Slack and other less feature-rich options. I had our company move from Slack + Office to Teams for that exact reason. Competitors promptly complained, whinged, and lobbied the government to interfere in the free market and force a hassle on customers in the hope that would make their products more competitive. And the bureaucrats are always eager to spew reasons why companies should kowtow to them.
Disgusting. Everyone in the EU who's not a Slack shareholder should be pissed.
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