Microsoft is considering ceasing to include the Teams messaging and video calling application in its Office suite in order to avoid a possible antitrust investigation by the regulatory institutions of the European Union, due to a complaint made in 2020 by the Slack platform.

The Office suite, now called Microsoft 365, comprises a set of programs designed to boost the productivity of companies and individuals when developing content in the work environment. Specifically, Microsoft 365 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams, among other solutions.

However, according to statements from sources close to Microsoft collected by the Financial Times, the technology company plans to stop including the Teams service by default in the Office suite to avoid provoking an antitrust investigation by the regulatory institutions of the European Union. In this way, Microsoft would offer users the option to buy Office without Teams.

As these sources have detailed, the American company would propose the possibility of integrating Teams into the suite only for those users or companies that request it in their Office pack. In this way, it would not force its installation with the purchase of Microsoft 365, as is currently the case.

This decision is preceded by the complaint that the instant messaging application also focused on companies and currently owned by Salesforce, Slack, filed in 2020. In his complaint, Slack accused Microsoft of monopoly for considering that the linking of Teams to Office is an abuse of its dominant position in the ‘software’ sector with its package of office tools.

“Slack asks the European Commission to act to ensure that Microsoft cannot continue to illegally take advantage of its power in one market to grow in another by bundling or bundling products“, the Salesforce platform said in 2020.

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Microsoft announced the integration of its business software suite, Microsoft 365, with next-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, Copilot, based on the OpenAI Large Language Model (LLM), which underpins the popular chatbot, GPT-4.

Copilot technology will enable Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook users to edit, summarize, create and compare documents more efficiently, and AI assistants will be able to generate full documents and slideshows. Microsoft expects this integration to revolutionize the way millions of people work every day, and expects to roll out the technology in its core applications in the coming months.

Although the company has recognized that the technology is not perfect and that it is necessary for humans to control the process and use of content.

The news comes after the release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and the debut of Microsoft’s generative AI-powered chat tool, Bing.

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Microsoft decided to say goodbye to the Office brand and bundle office applications into the new Microsoft 365 app, which will take on a new look and add new features.

The technology company announced the new Microsoft 365 application (different from the cloud platform with the same name), which “in the coming months” will replace services currently available under the Office name: Office.com, the Office mobile app and the Office app for Windows.

This name change, which includes a new icon, a new look and new features, will begin to materialize in November with Office.com, and will be completed in January with its arrival in the mobile and Windows applications.

The change will be automatic, as confirmed by the company on the page of the new app, and will incorporate new templates, new modules to discover tools or anchor the most used ones and new ways of organizing jobs with custom labels, among other new features.

For Microsoft, the new Microsoft 365 ‘app’ is “the starting point to experiment” with the tools it includes, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, while the Microsoft 365 subscription gives access to a cloud platform with more apps, more features, and more storage.

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