<story><title>EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/27/23797305/microsoft-teams-eu-antitrust-investigation-office-bundling-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exceptione</author><text>The bad thing: Teams would never have gotten any success without malpractice. The product is an incredible horror show, all competition easily crushed Teams. They are smart and counted on lazy admins.&lt;p&gt;How are you going to compensate competitors? The problem is that over and over again, companies like MS have already accounted for the fine in their planning.&lt;p&gt;If we want to end this practice, regulators need to deal a crippling blow to MS. Forbid for the next 15 years to provide any solution in the realm of messaging. Hand out a fine so high that it breaks the company and will lead to executives being sued by shareholders.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/27/23797305/microsoft-teams-eu-antitrust-investigation-office-bundling-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delecti</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious what people are using that makes Teams look so bad in comparison to the commenters complaining about it. It&amp;#x27;s the second most seamless video chat I&amp;#x27;ve ever used, just behind Google Duo, which is only seamless because it&amp;#x27;s so light on features. Zoom isn&amp;#x27;t too far behind, but the UI still doesn&amp;#x27;t manage to work as well.&lt;p&gt;And to be clear, this isn&amp;#x27;t commenting on the merits of an antitrust investigation; I understand the rationale behind anti-bundling regulations. I&amp;#x27;m just talking about the complaints about Teams itself. Are people prejudiced against it because Lync was so bad?</text></comment>