Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators.

Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is undermining rivals to its videoconferencing app Teams.

According to three people with knowledge of the move, the European Commission is pressing ahead with a formal charge sheet against the world’s most valuable listed tech company over concerns it is restricting competition in the sector.

Rivals are concerned that Microsoft will make Teams run more compatibly than rival apps with its own software. Another concern is the lack of data portability, which makes it difficult for existing Teams users to switch to alternatives.

The tech company has also faced complaints from European cloud computing providers that are concerned that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position in the sector to force users to buy its products and squashing competition from smaller start-ups in Europe.

  • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Teams is the absolute worst, my SO has some interviews lately and we had to figure out how to make it work:

    1. Linux + Firefox
    2. Plz create a Microsoft account. Urg… Fine.
    3. Sorry, web browser not supported. BS
    4. User-Agent switcher: ok you’re in ! But other participants don’t see the webcam feed despite it showing just fine on our end
    5. Ok, let’s try Chromium. Nope, can’t join the meeting
    6. Let’s go over to the MacBook Air. Can’t install Chrome, MacOS is too old, no more updates from Apple
    7. Let’s try on Android. Would work, if you could find a way to open the meeting link in the App LoL !
    8. Ok, let’s install, windows 11 and get it working, fucking painful, again create and account, sign all of our most intimate data off to the overlords, takes fucking hours to install… #GettingThingsSetupForyou… #Hi
    9. Finally, Install Flatpak Chrome on Linux, works ! WTF… I am so fucking done with this…