Microsoft offers to sell Office without Teams to placate EU regulators

The Microsoft Teams app on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024.Microsoft offered to unbundle its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 software suites from its Teams workplace communication app to address competition concerns from European regulators.The European Commission, which is the executive arm of the European Union, said Friday that Microsoft made commitments to address concerns over the tying of Teams to its widely-used productivity tools, such as Word and Outlook.Under a series of ...