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Microsoft Will Lower Price of Office 365 Without Teams Platform, Avoiding EU Antitrust Fine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 16:45:00

Microsoft has agreed to sell Office 365 suites unbundled without Teams for a significantly lower price than previously, ending a five-plus-year European Union dispute with Slack and avoiding a fine by the EU. The software giant was charged with EU antitrust violations in June 2024 for bundling Teams with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The dispute began in July 2020, when Slack (now owned by Salesforce) filed an official complaint, alleging Microsoft was conducting an "illegal and a

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Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-26 17:02:39

Microsoft has avoided an EU fine after the US tech group offered concessions on how it packages together its Teams and Office products, ending a long-running antitrust investigation by the bloc’s regulators. The probe, which began after a 2020 complaint from Slack, now part of Salesforce, accused Microsoft of abusing its market dominance by tying its video conferencing tool to its widely used suite of productivity applications. Since the initial complaint, Microsoft has unbundled Teams from Of

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Microsoft slips unscathed through EU competition probe after promising to unbundle Teams

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-26 17:09:44

Thanks to a pledge to unbundle its corporate messaging app Teams from its productivity suites, Microsoft has managed to slip unscathed through a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in massive fines for the tech giant. The Commission on Friday okayed Microsoft’s concessions to address the EU’s competition concerns over the company including Teams along with the rest of its Office productivity suite for free, concluding a multi-year investigation that

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Microsoft escapes EU antitrust fine after unbundling Teams

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 21:30:52

Microsoft is no longer in trouble with the European Commission, at least when it comes to Teams. The commission has accepted the changes and commitments the company made in response to its concerns related to Microsoft's bundling of its Teams collaboration platform with its other apps. This particular antitrust saga started years ago when Slack filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, claiming that it illegally bundled its work chat competitor with the popular Office suite. The commission

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Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-27 04:13:31

The Microsoft Teams app on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. The European Union on Friday said it has accepted commitments from Microsoft to unbundle its Teams workplace communication platform from its popular productivity apps. The decision essentially exempts Microsoft from receiving a potentially hefty antitrust fine after the company was last year accused by the European Commission — the executive body of the EU — of breaching competition rules with the "abusive

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Microsoft avoids EU fine after Slack complained about Teams bundling

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-27 03:46:50

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has avoided a fine from the European Commission after it was charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling its Teams app with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The European Commission says it has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address competition concerns rel

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Pulling an Inverse Conway Maneuver at Netflix (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Juan Ignacio Vimberg 2025-09-25 03:26:32

Pulling an Inverse Conway Maneuver at Netflix When I first joined the Netflix Platform team circa 2020, the Observability offering was composed of a series of tools serving different purposes. There was Atlas for metrics, Edgar for distributed tracing, Radar for Logs and Alerts, Lumen for dashboards, Telltale for app health, etc. It was a portfolio of about 20 different apps. Big and small, ranging from business-specific tools to analyze playback sessions to low-level tools for CPU profiling.

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Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams private chats

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 09:21:23

Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users when they send or receive a private message containing links that are tagged as malicious. Microsoft will introduce these new warnings for messages containing URLs that have been flagged as spam, phishing, or malware, for all Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) and Microsoft Teams enterprise customers. The new link protection feature will begin rolling out with a public preview for desktop, Android, web, and iOS users in September 2025 and is

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After Ukrainian testing, drone-detection radar doubles range with simple software patch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-28 14:16:51

As part of its unprovoked invasion, Russia has been firing massed waves of drones and missiles into Ukraine for years, though the tempo has been raised dramatically in recent months. Barrages of 700-plus drones now regularly attack Ukraine during overnight raids. Russia also appears to have upped the ante dramatically by sending at least 19 drones into Poland last night, some of which were shot down by NATO forces. Many of these drones are Shahed/Geran types built with technology imported from

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How External Attack Surface Management helps enterprises manage cyber risk

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-03 08:01:11

Every day, businesses spin up new digital services (websites, APIs, and cloud instances) and it can be for security teams to keep track. Somewhere in that churn, an unmonitored subdomain or misconfigured bucket lurks, waiting for an opportunistic attacker to slip in. External Attack Surface Management (EASM) flips the script: instead of reacting to breaches, you map and monitor every internet‑facing asset continuously. Hidden exposures become visible vulnerabilities you can close before they’re

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Addigy teams up with SentinelOne for new Apple security suite with real time compliance and zero trust

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-12 17:00:00

Addigy has long been known for its Apple device management service, but its new Security Suite aims to offer additional solutions for IT teams and managed service providers. By combining Addigy’s device management service platform with SentinelOne EDR and MDR, IT teams can have a single console for compliance, endpoint protection, and 24/7 threat defense for their macOS fleets. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibili

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Teams Grow Organically

news.ycombinator.com Frederick Vanbrabant 2025-10-18 02:00:15

I’ve been working a lot with service line architecture recently. If you’re not familiar with that; it’s how business units such as IT, HR, or Sales bring services to clients, both internal and external. These structures often mirror team organization. Think of it as a hierarchy: IT at level one, Software Development and Ops at level two, and then individual teams, like: Software Team X or Ops Team Y, at level three. What’s surprising is how rarely these structures reflect reality. In practice,

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Parallels Desktop 26 arrives with macOS 26 support and enterprise IT management tools

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-26 04:00:00

For nearly two decades, Parallels has been one of the go to solutions for running Windows on the Mac, and with version 26 the company is doubling down on both sides of that equation while making it easier to deploy at work. Parallels Desktop 26 arrives with day one support for macOS 26 Tahoe and Windows 11 25H2, along with a strong set of IT focused improvements that make it easier to manage virtual machines at scale. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless

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Why Certified VMware Pros Are Driving the Future of IT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 20:53:34

By Brenda Emerson, VMUG President IT isn't getting any simpler. For many, the cloud’s gone hybrid, AI’s moved in permanently, and security threats seem to evolve faster than the tech built to stop them. But what’s at the forefront of all of this? People. The IT teams configuring, troubleshooting, deploying, and defending. And the IT staff that take the extra step to get certified are becoming some of the most valuable assets in modern enterprise. The Certification Advantage: It's More Than

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Microsoft shares workaround for Teams "couldn't connect" error

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-06 09:07:14

Microsoft is resolving a known issue that causes "couldn't connect" errors when launching the Microsoft Teams desktop and web applications. The company states that the error is caused by a recent change to Teams' sidebar, but has yet to disclose which regions are affected by this ongoing issue. While Microsoft has yet to share more information on the extent of this issue, it has tagged it as an advisory, which typically indicates that the problem might be limited in scope or intermittent. "Af

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Microsoft Teams to protect against malicious URLs, dangerous file types

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-09 20:20:30

Microsoft recently revealed that it's currently enhancing protection against dangerous file types and malicious URLs in Teams chats and channels. "Microsoft Teams now blocks messages containing weaponizable file types, such as executables, in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks," the company said in a Microsoft 365 roadmap update this week. "Microsoft Teams can now detect and warn users on malicious URLs sent in Teams chat and channels, increa

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New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 22:36:13

A new post-exploitation command-and-control (C2) evasion method called 'Ghost Calls' abuses TURN servers used by conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to tunnel traffic through trusted infrastructure. Ghost Calls uses legitimate credentials, WebRTC, and custom tooling to bypass most existing defenses and anti-abuse measures, without relying on an exploit. This new tactic was presented by Praetorian's security researcher Adam Crosser at BlackHat USA, where it was highlighted that the

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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-01 03:01:00

The director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism. On Wednesday, Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, one of the largest gatherings of information security professionals of the year. Ahead of his talk, Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what

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Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI

venturebeat.com Roman Eloshvili 2025-12-07 12:05:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now As AI continues to take on more and more new competencies, junior coding, as we knew it, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Tasks that used to be the bread and butter for junior developers — such as repetitive scripting, HTML layout or simple DevOps setups — are now being reliably handled by AI assistants like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot

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Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering (Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 04:00:36

About Great Question Great Question is on a mission to help businesses build better products by making customer research fast, easy, and scalable. We’re a Series A B2B SaaS company backed by top-tier investors and trusted by leading brands like Gusto, Miro, Brex, and Canva. Our all-in-one research platform enables teams to recruit participants, run interviews and surveys, and analyze insights — all in one place. As we enter the era of AI, we’re pioneering automated qualitative analysis to help

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Microsoft Teams voice calls abused to push Matanbuchus malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-06 22:28:31

The Matanbuchus malware loader has been seen being distributed through social engineering over Microsoft Teams calls impersonating IT helpdesk. Matanbuchus is a malware-as-a-service operation seen promoted on the dark web first in early 2021. It was advertised as a $2,500 Windows loader that executes malicious payloads directly in memory to evade detection. In June 2022, threat analyst Brad Duncan reported that the malware loader was being used to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons in a large-scale

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Virtuos, the studio behind Oblivion Remastered, is laying off around 270 employees

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-08 06:57:22

It said teams 'facing lower occupancy and slower demand due to structural shifts in the industry' would bear the brunt of the cuts. Virtuos, the studio that developed The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, is laying off seven percent of its staff, or around 270 employees. Gauthier Andres, a reporter and co-founder at Origami, was first to report the news, which the studio later confirmed. Virtuos has provided support on a number of large game projects — including a recent patch for Cyberpunk

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FOKS: Federated Open Key Service

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 08:49:21

A Simple Key Hierarchy To power applications like the Git and KV-Store shown above, FOKS needs a shared symmetric key for all readers and writers of the data, available only to the authorized devices, teams users and keys that the authors specify. FOKS achieves this natural application requirement with a simple key hierarchy. Everything starts with base-level keys, like user device keys, backup keys, or YubiKeys. Device keys are generated on user devices and never leave the machine they are ge

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FOKS: The Federated Open Key Service

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 08:49:21

A Simple Key Hierarchy To power applications like the Git and KV-Store shown above, FOKS needs a shared symmetric key for all readers and writers of the data, available only to the authorized devices, teams users and keys that the authors specify. FOKS achieves this natural application requirement with a simple key hierarchy. Everything starts with base-level keys, like user device keys, backup keys, or YubiKeys. Device keys are generated on user devices and never leave the machine they are ge

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Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-27 03:04:32

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has added threaded conversations to its Teams communications app this week. After promising to launch the highly-requested feature in mid-2025, Microsoft is now releasing a public preview of threaded conversations for Teams users to enable. The Microsoft Teams threads integration debuts in the channels section of the app, where it works a little differently to how Sl

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Jeff Chow of Miro shares how team intelligence drives better product-building at TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-01-27 12:15:00

AI can help your team move faster — but only if your team knows how to move together. Join Jeff Chow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Miro, for a roundtable sessions at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where he’ll break down how product-led innovation can supercharge collaborative problem-solving. This session, titled “Building Team Intelligence: How Product-Led Innovation Transforms Collaborative Problem-Solving,” and is built for founders, product leader

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The AI complexity paradox: More productivity, more responsibilities

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2026-01-31 00:04:27

peepo/Getty Images Does artificial intelligence (AI) make working life easier or complicated? Experts suggest the answer depends on the context. In a recent IDC-hosted interview, SIAC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley described AI as the ultimate weapon against system complexity, noting that her company is employing AI to reduce tech complexity in some of the most complex technology environments on the planet -- within the US Department of Defense. Also: Amazon's Andy Jassy says AI will take some jobs

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Microsoft cancels its Perfect Dark and Everwild Xbox games

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-02-06 17:18:38

We have made the decision to stop development of Perfect Dark and Everwild as well as wind down several unannounced projects across our portfolio. As part of this, we are closing one of our studios, The Initiative. These decisions, along with other changes across our teams, reflect a broader effort to adjust priorities and focus resources to set up our teams for greater success within a changing industry landscape. We did not make these choices lightly, as each project and team represent years o

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AllSpice’s platform is the GitHub for electrical engineering teams

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-02-26 03:00:00

There is no shortage of workflow collaboration tools — like Slack or Google Docs, in addition to industry-specific ones like GitHub — for software developers. A startup called AllSpice successfully bet that electrical hardware engineering teams need their own collaboration platform, too. AllSpice’s platform sits between existing workflow software. It allows hardware teams to collaborate on the types of documents they traditionally work in — documents that don’t easily translate over Slack and e

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Red Bull brings 5th Valorant Home Ground tournament to New York

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2026-02-27 16:00:46

Red Bull announced today that it is holding Home Ground, its Valorant Off//Season esports tournament, in New York for its 5th anniversary. It will hold the tournament at the Manhattan Center on November 13-16. It’ll feature 18 teams and a total of $100,000 in prizes. According to Red Bull, six invited teams will compete alongside 12 qualifying teams, with the confirmed invited teams being Sentinels, T1, Fnatic, ZETA Division and G2 Esports. Regional qualifiers are still taking place, with teams

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