The European Commission accepted Microsoft’s pledge to unbundle Teams from Office for seven years and to open APIs and permit data export for five years. Rather than levy massive fines, the remedy forces structural choice and technical openness to spur rivals like Slack. Microsoft is also offering non‑Teams suites at lower prices globally, signaling broader effects on bundling economics.
— This sets a template for using interoperability and time‑bound unbundling to open platform markets, likely influencing future tech antitrust cases.
msmash
2025.10.07
78% relevant
The Court’s refusal to stay Judge Donato’s order compels Google to allow external payment links and distribution outside the Play Store—U.S. court‑mandated openness akin to EU unbundling/interoperability remedies.
BeauHD
2025.09.16
45% relevant
Like the EU’s use of structural remedies (unbundling and API/data portability) instead of fines, California is leveraging merger approval to impose durable, non‑price remedies: a $20 low‑income plan with defined 300/300 Mbps speeds, fixed‑wireless tiers, and mandated build‑outs.
Oren Cass
2025.09.14
60% relevant
By highlighting CUDA and NVLink lock‑in as Nvidia’s core moat, the piece implicitly points toward interoperability/unbundling remedies (akin to EU–Microsoft Teams) as part of competition policy for AI tooling.
EditorDavid
2025.09.14
100% relevant
EC announcement: seven‑year unbundling, five‑year API interoperability and data‑export access, and 50% price difference for non‑Teams suites.