Companies will soon have the option to purchase Office with or without Teams installed.
There are allegedly ongoing discussions with EU regulators, but “a deal is not certain.”
Microsoft and Slack don’t get along very well.
Slack’s CEO subsequently asserted, “Teams is not a competitor to Slack.”
Microsoft entered into a settlement with the European Commission in 2009, promising to give customers in Europe a choice of web browsers.
It was later fined €561 million in 2013 for persistently failing to uphold that promise.
Microsoft and the DOJ agreed to limitations such as not sharing APIs with outside developers and allowing PC makers to include non-Microsoft applications on their hardware.