I'm no big fan of MS. And even if I were, using Teams would make that praise fall in the shitter
But I'm tired of these groups arguing that something should be less complete as a good thing
Why doesn't Yamaha sue Honda for including their own radio in the car? And surely customers would be irritated that they had to go and get another fucking radio
If I buy "Office Suite" I want it to have all the products included. If I think teams sucks I can get something else
If they make it difficult for that, like they did with IE, that's a different story. But merely including it? Come on
They tried that shit with antivirus. I'm GLAD MS includes defender. If I had to get all that shit separately, I'd be irritated. And if I don't like defender, I'm free to get something else
I'm not an expert on EU antitrust but these things seem like they naturally go together. After all, Outlook comes with Office, right? Is that not a communication and collaboration tool?
It's certainly not wrong to take a look into Microsoft and its subscription business, but I don't see much success in pressing this particular point: Not only was there always some sort of free version of Teams since 2018, but since 2022 there has been a Teams Essentials subscription, a version that doesn't bundle O356.
If anything I'd like some compensation for the loss in sanity you get trying to understand the dozen different subscriptions and (incompatible) versions of Teams, all of which are confusingly named.