Microsoft confirmed that the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 office suites for business customers will drop the Teams productivity solution in Europe, offering new lower-priced plans and Teams independently.

The European Commission announced in July the start of a formal investigation to determine whether Microsoft violated competition rules in the region by linking its Teams video conferencing and productivity application with the installation of Office software, a situation denounced by its competitor Slack in July 2020 against Brussels.

Then, Microsoft assured that it was going to work with the Commission to find a solution to the concerns that had motivated the investigation, and this Thursday it announced “proactive changes” that will affect Microsoft 365 and Office 365 for companies, in the European Economic Area and Swiss.

As of October 1st of this year, Microsoft will unlink Teams from the two office suites, and will offer this solution independently at a price of 5 euros per month or 60 euros per year. The two ‘suites’ will have a lower price.

The company qualifies in its official blog that current business customers may choose to maintain their subscription with Teams or switch to the new ‘suite’ without Teams. Instead, for small businesses and frontline workers, Microsoft will continue to offer Microsoft 365 and Office 365 with Teams, but also another offering without Teams, at a lower price.

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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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The 2023 World Baseball Classic is a major sporting event that brings together the best baseball teams from around the world. In addition to the excitement and competition, the tournament also represents an opportunity to make significant profits.

According to the information provided, the teams participating in the event have the opportunity to obtain important cash prizes, depending on the level they manage to reach in the tournament. These are the prize payouts on offer:

• Participation: US$300,000
• Group Winner: $300,000
• Advance to quarterfinals: $400,000
• Advance to semifinals: US$500,000
• Advance to the final: US$500,000
• The Champion: $1,000,000

In addition to these prize payouts, teams can earn additional revenue through ticket sales and tournament-related merchandise. However, no specific figures are provided on how much money they could earn in this regard.

In short, the sporting event offers significant cash prizes for participants, ranging from $300,000 for participation to $1 million for the champion team. Although specific amounts on ticket and merchandise sales are not provided, these are expected to be additional sources of revenue for the groups.

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Workplace announced two new integrations for companies, among which is the incorporation of Microsoft Teams within this service developed by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, in order to facilitate communication without the need to switch between the two applications.

Through a statement, Workplace announced that Microsoft and Meta agreed to integrate this team video conferencing service from Teams, used mainly in companies, to this tool created by Mark Zuckerberg’s company that serves to put people in contact members of a business organization.

With this new free service enabled, the company believes that “it will make it even easier for employees to keep up-to-date with important information and open more opportunities for feedback and engagement with the entire company”, as indicated in the writing.

To this novelty is added the possibility of transmitting the meetings that take place in Teams to the Workplace groups, so that users can reproduce them, as well as the events that take place in this space live from any application they are using in the moment in which these take place or visualize it later in streaming.

According to the statement, despite being announced now, it will not be until 2022 when companies will be able to reproduce meetings and transmissions from Teams to Workplace.

“We have a shared vision of offering our customers choice and flexibility, so it made sense for us to come together to help them unlock collaboration and break silos within their organizations”, said Jeff Teper, corporate vice president of Microsoft Teams.

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This week the 2021 edition of the annual Ignite event is taking place, where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about the improvements that the company will bring soon.

In Nadella’s words, there are five keys that will characterize the next generation in technology: ubiquitous and decentralized computing, data sovereignty and environmental intelligence, empowered creators and communities, expanding economic opportunities for workers, and safety by design.

In Ignite, for example, Microsoft Mesh has been seen in use, a new development of mixed reality that creates a real sense of presence. Thanks to it people who are even on different continents can live an experience analogous to what they would have while in the same physical space, interacting even with 3D content or with each other through Mesh-enabled applications on any platform or device. Mesh will integrate with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Dynamics 365 and allow the company’s partner community to build a wide variety of new experiences and applications.

Regarding Teams, the CEO announced the addition of new presenter views for meetings, and discussed future feature development around Microsoft Viva.

On the other hand, at Ignite there has also been news from Azure. Microsoft indicated that it is preparing new features and updates to extract the maximum potential of the cloud. Azure Percept, for example, will help customers bring the power of AI to edge computing environments.

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