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Microsoft to stop packaging Teams and Office software in Europe to head off EU antitrust action
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FILE - The Microsoft logo is pictured outside the headquarters in Paris, on Jan. 8, 2021. Microsoft said Thursday Aug. 31, 2023 its will stop combining its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app with its Office productivity software for European customers, in a move to head off a possible European Union antitrust penalty. - photo by AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File
LONDON (AP) — Microsoft will stop packaging its Teams videoconferencing app with its Office software in Europe in an effort to head off antitrust penalties by regulators. The tech giant also said Thursday that it would take steps to make it easier for competing products to work alongside its software. The announcement comes a month after the European Union's executive Commission, the 27-nation bloc's top competition enforcer, opened a formal investigation over concerns that bundling Teams with Office gives the company an unfair edge over competitors.