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[-] nx2@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

So my boss won't have to pay me for Microsoft Office, even though I can't use it on Linux? I suppose that's a win

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


“Today we are announcing proactive changes that we hope will start to address these concerns in a meaningful way, even while the European Commission’s investigation continues and we cooperate with it,” says Nanna-Louise Linde, VP of Microsoft european government affairs.

“These changes will impact our Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites for business customers in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.”

The unbundling means that enterprise customers in EU markets will be able to purchase Microsoft 365 subscriptions at a lower monthly price without Teams, or have to buy a standalone version of Teams at a list price of €5 per month or €60 per year.

“We will instead simply sell these offerings without Teams at a lower price (€2 less per month or €24 per year),” explains Linde.

“We believe these changes balance the interests of our competitors with those of European business customers, providing them with access to the best possible solutions at competitive prices,” says Linde.

We will continue to engage with the Commission, listen to concerns in the marketplace, and remain open to exploring pragmatic solutions that benefit both customers and developers in Europe.”


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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Nice, that means more businesses will finally be able to escape the total microsoft dependence and just use the products they need.

[-] steph@lemmy.clueware.org 3 points 1 year ago

You mean Microsoft will recoup the cost of unbundling by charging more per product compared to the previous bundle, given that it's now different products?

'cause at work the powers that be has gone all-in on MS and this decision won't change a bit their "strategy".

[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Of course they will, but the fact that businesses don't have to buy everything as a pack means that they will consider alternatives to office and onedrive instead of just using what they pay for already.

[-] drcabbage@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

One can hope.

[-] silvercove 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

The unbundling is largely targeted at enterprises, as Microsoft will keep bundling Teams in its Microsoft 365 Business plans that are offered to small businesses.

¿que?

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They seem to have failed to address one major issue. You can't have teams working with a domain and a non Office 365 email service, that's a bummer and the only way to get around it is to use funky addresses on teams like person@company.onmicrosoft.com. This is simply an anti-competitive practice from Microsoft to force companies into Office 365 E-mail. There's no technical reason for this.

[-] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So we'll have to assign and pay for teams licencing now?

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Can you easily have multiple tenants open at once yet? My company will be adopting it until then because we work with clients that also use teams.

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's force installed with Windows, this doesn't seem like news.

[-] Caststarman@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

That's actually a different Microsoft teams. Not the same thing...

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In the same way they unbundled internet explorer in win 7 but left it there anyway?

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