Microsoft makes commitments on Teams to allay EU antitrust concerns

Published on 12/09/2025 - 11:22 GMT+2

The European Commission connected Friday accepted nan concessions projected by Microsoft concerning its Teams level Teams to resoluteness an antitrust lawsuit it has been entangled successful since July 2023.

To allay charges of maltreatment of dominance, Microsoft has projected to connection customers its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 applications without Teams astatine a little value than nan suites including Teams and committed not to offering discount rates connected Teams higher than those offered connected suites without Teams.

It besides offered interoperability to competitors pinch definite Microsoft products and projected to let customers to extract their Teams messaging information for usage successful competing solutions.

The lawsuit was opened successful July 2023 pursuing complaints from competing agency level Slack and successful 2024 from Alfaview, accusing Microsoft of abusing its ascendant position by bundling Teams pinch its Office and Microsoft 365 suites.

In June 2024, nan Commission made a preliminary uncovering that nan US tech elephantine was abusing its ascendant position successful nan master package market.

A twelvemonth later, nan Commission launched a marketplace trial connected commitments offered by Microsoft which lead Slack and Alfaview to retreat their complaints.

“Organisations large and mini crossed Europe and astir nan world trust heavy connected videoconferencing, chat and collaboration tools, particularly since nan coronavirus pandemic,” EU title commissioner Teresa Ribera said successful a statement, adding that nan determination “opens up title successful this important market, and ensures that businesses tin freely take nan connection and collaboration merchandise that champion suits their needs.”

The Commission’s determination makes Microsoft’s commitments binding for 7 years and for 10 years regarding interoperability and information portability.

“We move now to implementing these caller obligations promptly and fully,” Nanna-Louise Linde, Vice President of Microsoft’s European Government Affairs, said successful a statement.

If nan institution fails to meet its commitments, nan Commission could enforce a good of up to 10% of its world yearly revenue.