<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>irusensei</author><text>I think the real victims here are us normal people who have to deal with the terrible quality of that software.&lt;p&gt;It was a good choice for whoever is picking the software and Microsoft is not worried at all in trying to improve it because they know people will swallow it.&lt;p&gt;Unless I have no option I&amp;#x27;m not working anymore for any company that uses Teams.</text></comment>