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.

  • BestBouclettes@jlai.luEnglish
    721·
    8 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
      332·
      8 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
        14·
        8 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.

      • halva@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        8 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

      • BestBouclettes@jlai.luEnglish
        51·
        8 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.