Microsoft could offer Office without Teams

[Jan]

Microsoft could remove Teams from Office package

Microsoft has offered to create a version of its Office and Microsoft 365 productivity suite without the Teams video conferencing and collaboration app, Financial Times reports.

The commitment comes after several parties — including Slack owner Salesforce — complained to the European Union (EU) that Microsoft's bundling of Teams with Office was anti-competitive.

 

[Sapphiron]

Help us EU, our products are overpriced and people are not buying it because they get much better value from Microsoft.

 

[OCP]

Help us EU, our products are overpriced and people are not buying it because they get much better value from Microsoft.

Yes - max 720p video in Teams is so much better value than full 4k in Zoom.

 

[Sapphiron]

Yes - max 720p video in Teams is so much better value than full 4k in Zoom.

so why are most businesses not using Zoom instead?

Also, Teams is a lot more than just webmeeting software

 

[OCP]

so why are most businesses not using Zoom instead?

Also, Teams is a lot more than just webmeeting software

You missing the point that you get what you pay for.

Teams is still a pile of **** but by bundling it in users are tricked into using it.

Make it a separate app so people get a choice (or a forced to make an informed one) in what app they want to use.

 

[noxibox]

Would Microsoft be able to persuade anyone to use Teams if it wasn't bundled?

 

[Sapphiron]

Would Microsoft be able to persuade anyone to use Teams if it wasn't bundled?

The fact that it is integrated with Onedrive and SharePoint makes a big difference. it's more of a business projects portal.

Sure it could be a lot better quite easily. but it meets the bar of "good enough" for most people.

 

[noxibox]

How is this integration different to what Zoom offers? Is sufficiently better to compensate for the extremely poor quality of Teams‘ video meeting feature?

 

[Vrotappel]

You missing the point that you get what you pay for.

Teams is still a pile of **** but by bundling it in users are tricked into using it.

Make it a separate app so people get a choice (or a forced to make an informed one) in what app they want to use.

Nobody forces you to use it.

 

[OCP]

Nobody forces you to use it.

You pay for office and get Teams for free ... why pay extra for a different competitive app?

This is how MS weasels out the competition and while I have a personal choice - companies dictate what users *have* to use when they dont see the value in paying more for something else ;-)

As most office license are paid for by corporates - most people are forced to use Teams and/or do not have the option of personal choice.

 

[Vrotappel]

You pay for office and get Teams for free ... why pay extra for a different competitive app?

This is how MS weasels out the competition and while I have a personal choice - companies dictate what users *have* to use when they dont see the value in paying more for something else ;-)

As most office license are paid for by corporates - most people are forced to use Teams and/or do not have the option of personal choice.

You can download zoom for free. You can use it from the web, same with Google meet an others.

Personally I hat the way Teams try to absorb everything office but this is just pathetic from the EU. The world has got real problems.