Microsoft offers to sell Office with Teams at lower price in EU antitrust probe

Reuters

Fri, May 16, 2025, 2:54 AM 1 min read

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft has offered to merchantability its Office merchandise without Teams astatine a little terms than Office with Teams arsenic good arsenic connection rivals amended interoperability entree to its services and products, EU antitrust regulators said connected Friday.

The European Commission said it was present going to question feedback from rivals and customers earlier deciding whether to judge the offer. Reuters was the archetypal to study astir the determination earlier this week.

Microsoft's connection would bring an extremity to a long-running lawsuit triggered by a 2020 ailment by Salesforce-owned Slack, which could person resulted successful a hefty antitrust good for the U.S. tech giant.

Microsoft's Vice President for European Government Affairs Nanna-Louise Linde said successful a blogpost that the connection was a wide and implicit solution to concerns raised by rivals and would springiness Europeans much choice.

(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee)