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Microsoft’s evolving relationship with regulators, competitors, and customers in Europe has reached another pivotal moment as the tech giant offers to decouple its Teams collaboration platform from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 productivity suites across the continent. This proposed...
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The European Union's protracted antitrust investigation into Microsoft's bundling of its Teams application with Office 365 appears to be approaching a resolution. The European Commission has initiated a public consultation on Microsoft's latest commitments aimed at addressing competition...
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Microsoft’s decision to unbundle Teams from Office in Europe is a strategic move that may help the company avoid another large fine from the European Union. This action responds to complaints from competitors like Slack (owned by Salesforce) and Alfaview...
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Microsoft’s entanglement with EU regulators over its bundling of the Teams workplace communication app with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 software suites has rapidly evolved into one of the most consequential antitrust sagas in the global technology landscape. The stakes are substantial, not...
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Microsoft’s decades-long dominance in the workplace productivity sector faces fresh scrutiny as it seeks to sidestep a potentially hefty European Union antitrust fine by offering to unbundle its collaborative Teams app from its ubiquitous Office suite. The move—first reported by Reuters—is a...
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The remarkable saga of Microsoft’s dominance in workplace productivity is entering a pivotal new chapter, triggered not by market hunger or sudden innovation but by the steady drumbeat of European Union regulators. With news breaking that Microsoft will separate its Teams collaboration software...
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP), developed by Anthropic, has emerged as a pivotal open standard facilitating seamless integration between Large Language Models (LLMs) and external tools, systems, and data sources. By standardizing context exchange, MCP enables AI assistants to interact with...
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