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EU’s Microsoft settlement is striking, but will it improve competition?

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts ( September 17, 2025, 10:24 GMT | Comment) -- The EU’s antitrust watchdog secured a remarkable package of remedies from Microsoft to close a probe into Teams, and it has held the case up as a model for future enforcement in the tech sector. But the jury is out on whether it will meaningfully improve competition. And some Microsoft critics are wary that it will continue tying new services and technologies into the Office bundle and its software, making life hard for potential challengers.Microsoft’s rolling out of Teams occasioned a new term to be coined in the netherworld of tech newsletters: to "Slack up" — meaning to go after a smaller rival and eat its lunch....

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