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As an anecdote I know of a certain top-100 company that ditched their in-house competitor to Teams because MS made them a sweeter O365 deal. For a time manageme
by AshamedCaptain 5y ago
As an anecdote I know of a certain top-100 company that ditched their in-house competitor to Teams because MS made them a sweeter O365 deal. For a time management forced them to use Teams even though they were still developing AND licensing the in-house competitor to other companies.
MS is really aggressive with Teams marketing (specially for large bureaucratic enterprise) and I could totally see them doing what you mention.
- deadbunny 5y agoThe problem is that Slack (paid for) is hard to argue for vs. Teams when Teams is basically free if you already use o365. Management just see that chat app X is costing us XXk/year when Teams is "free". Easy savings.
- rapsey 5y agoAnd this is why MS is the king of enterprise.
- wayoutthere 5y agoYeah I’ve always maintained that MS is an enterprise software company that cosplays a consumer software company from time to time. They don’t make a ton of money outside their enterprise software division; the rest of the company more or less breaks even.
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- jevoten 5y agoDiscounting a different product to kill competition? I'm no antitrust expert, but isn't that illegal? If not, it should be.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoNo, it would be abuse of dominant position; it is illegal only if you are in a dominant position to begin with.