Hi folks
It looks like the EU is sticking it's OAR into Ms again. Seems from Oct 1 users in Europe (and for this purpose that includes the UK too) that Ms cannot integrate Teams into its office suite and so will have to charge users even on the office/365 package an extra thing around 7 USD a month or so if they want teams (but can have office/365 without it). For once Ms isn't the villain of the piece here. The EU surely has better things to do than get involved in this sort of nonsense where 1000's of people either have to pay more or get inconvenienced by having to look for a suitable alternative function - atnd he integration of Teams into Office is surely what makes it worth while in a business environment where people use their own computers.
The excuse was "restraining competition". - As I've always been led to believe the essentially capitalist and free market economy usually encourages LOWER prices. Seems like the EU commission has managed to repeal one of the fundamental principles of economics and cause consumers to pay MORE for allowing competition.
Seems a lot of people studying economics at university will have to have their degrees / theses rescinded !!!
cheers
jimbo
It looks like the EU is sticking it's OAR into Ms again. Seems from Oct 1 users in Europe (and for this purpose that includes the UK too) that Ms cannot integrate Teams into its office suite and so will have to charge users even on the office/365 package an extra thing around 7 USD a month or so if they want teams (but can have office/365 without it). For once Ms isn't the villain of the piece here. The EU surely has better things to do than get involved in this sort of nonsense where 1000's of people either have to pay more or get inconvenienced by having to look for a suitable alternative function - atnd he integration of Teams into Office is surely what makes it worth while in a business environment where people use their own computers.
The excuse was "restraining competition". - As I've always been led to believe the essentially capitalist and free market economy usually encourages LOWER prices. Seems like the EU commission has managed to repeal one of the fundamental principles of economics and cause consumers to pay MORE for allowing competition.
Seems a lot of people studying economics at university will have to have their degrees / theses rescinded !!!
cheers
jimbo
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