
What you need to know
- The European Commission has shared its preliminary view with Microsoft that the tech giant has breached EU antitrust rules by bundling Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365.
- The Commission's view is that Microsoft relayed dominance in the productivity software space to restrict competition for communication and collaboration tools.
- Microsoft started offering some suites of productivity software without Teams in July 2023, but the European Commission preliminarily found the changes to be "insufficient."