TECH - Microsoft Succumbs To Regulatory Pressure | Benzinga
On Monday, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced it will its chat and video app Teams will be sold separately from its Office offerings across the globe, six months after already unbundling them in Europe in an effort to avert a possible antitrust fine. This is good news for its rivals, Zoom Video Communications Inc (NASDAQ: ZM) and Slack, owned by Salesforce Inc (NYSE: CRM), but not for its customers that will have to pay more to get this bundle.
Microsoft dodged the Big Tech crackdown with Bing
Its Bing search engine, along with Edge web browser and advertising services avoided the strict new rules the European Union imposed on Big Tech by not being dominant enough to face the Digital Markets Act. Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) was just as lucky with its iMessage while Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: ...