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.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
    963·
    9 months ago

    That will just make them more money as they can charge whatever they want for both

    • BestBouclettesEnglish
      741·
      9 months ago

      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 ?

      • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
        433·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          15·
          9 months ago

          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.

        • BestBouclettesEnglish
          61·
          9 months ago

          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.

        • halva@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          this is all well and good when we’re talking about a properly elastic market (eg food)

          however, the supply of hosted enterprise video conference software is extremely limited (teams, zoom, google meet) and the demand is extremely high

          moreover, switching providers and reeducating the staff will also be highly expensive

          you can’t exactly go anywhere else, you just have to agree to whatever msft is doing

    • Pzulu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      If we clearly have to pay for.something, instead of it being wrapped into a license of so many things, I will push for us to take Zoom.

      It just works better.

      Annotating on screen is worth it alone, instead of trying to talk the screen sharer to what part of the screen you want to talk about.

      • atx_aquarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        I want:

        • Zoom’s…
          • …annotation
          • …richer reactions
        • Teams’s…
          • sensible screen layout
          • richer chat content
          • chat continuity before/during/after meetings
          • very granularly customizable avatars
        • Some other tool’s composition interface for chat text
    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      9 months ago

      Pretty sure the only reason any org uses teams is because it’s already bundled for free with office or Enterprise subscriptions.

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        Teams also have great integration with SharePoint which simplified administration and usage.

        • exanime@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I’m completely biases because I cannot find a si gle redeemable feature of SharePoint… Hence, anything that integrates with SharePoint is just worse by doing so