Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
When does google have to separate gmail (or is it workspace now) and hangouts, no, allo, no, duo, uh, I mean meet.
Maybe if ms just keeps changing the names of things all their woes will disappear!
…now that the marketplace has been altered.
Zoom was disruptive in the market because the other options SUCKED - Skype, GotomyPC, WebEx, etc all did a lot of rapid maturing during the pandemic to catch up to Zoom, and this ‘bundling’ of Teams with Office has built user lock-in via Office 365.
Well played Microsoft, once again ducking a well deserved anti-trust suit. ‘Historic injury’ should count equally as ‘current injury’ for prosecution, arguably especially so if that historic injury is what created your current market share
Maybe businesses will stop forcing “free” Teams on their workforces now. What a pile of shit.
I fucking hate teams, I swear every single day it iritatea me, and at least once a week I find something new I hate about it. This week, it keeps pinning my self-chat. Which I don’t use. If it lets me unpin it, it’ll end up pinned again within a couple of days.
It is a huge source of frustration for me at work as well. It is slow, it has too many weird and ill-defined features shoved in, it is difficult to search, the WYSIWIG markdown features are fuckulated, it crashes regularly, there is too much wasted/negative space in the UI, and worst of all, it makes me sad in my heart.
What’s a better alternative? I was a big fan of Teams back when I worked with an org that used it
Honestly? Even Discord, a game chat app. Teams just sucks.
Or matrix. Matrix is great.
Honestly the standard way should be that organizations host their own Matrix server. Then they don’t have to pay for enterprise Teams or whatever, and they control their data.
That will just make them more money as they can charge whatever they want for both
From Teams plus office 10 euros a month per user to Office alone 9 euros a month per user and Teams alone 5 euros a month per user.
Microsoft would never do that now, would they ?
Capitalism has a lot of problems, but the freedom given to a seller to set their prices to whatever they like and watch the buyer decide it is not a fair price and go buy from someone else is not one of them.
This is a win for everyone.
Its only freedom if there’s actual choice involved.
The scale at which these sales are made has nothing to do with the average consumer. Its just mega corps crunching numbers.
And that really only has to do with share prices, none of it trickles down to the actual workers.
This is just rich people having slap fights.
The problem with that is when a company like Microsoft has used and abused its position for such a long time that the only possible competition is another megacorp. No real choice there, only an illusion of choice.
Are you familiar with the concept of a captive market?
