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Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally in new attempt to appease antitrust regulators
(www.geekwire.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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as a consumer product, yeah. but teams is ubiquitous in business and govt.
You'd think businesses wouldn't want to give all their communications to... a bigger business, especially one currently invested in AI training.
It would be like a company doing mapping/GIS stuff using Gmail for communications. You're just handing your data over to your largest competitor. It's fucking stupid.
When you’re an enterprise client paying serious money for the service, there are often data protection requirements. They have the capability to support things like export controlled information or HIPAA compliance in office, and appropriate legal agreements ensuring data protection. It’s the power of collective bargaining (they are buying 100s++ licenses instead of just one).
It's probably more than 100s. One of my Slack orgs has over 300 paid users and Slack barely considers us midsize.
Yeah that’s why I added the ++, the last org I was in had >10k users.