Teams, which was added to Office 365 for free in 2017, was later replaced by Skype for Business and became popular during the pandemic partly due to video conferencing. However, in 2020 Salesforce, which offers a competitive messaging program Slack, filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft because of this integration.
Since October of last year, in order to avoid fines, the corporation separated the products for EU and Switzerland customers, and now decided to extend this offer to all other users worldwide.
As Reuters notes, active clients can keep their current agreement or switch to one of the separate offerings — an option that will be especially useful for those who use the Office suite but prefer a different communication service, such as Zoom or Google Meet. Commercial users who are not yet familiar with Microsoft's offerings can purchase Teams for $5.25, while Office without Teams will cost from $7.75 to $54.75 (figures may vary depending on the country and currency).
In the last decade, Microsoft has received antitrust fines from the EU totaling $2.4 billion, and the combination of two or more products together could cost the company an additional 10% of its global annual revenue.
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