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Another Big Wave of Microsoft Coming, "Microsoft faces EU antitrust probe after remedies fall short"

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 07, 2023

Indian-American Microsoft exec who helped build Windows, Skype to resign [Ed: A bad sign of things to come]

Indian-American Gurdeep Pall, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, who helped build and promote Windows, Skype and Bing, intends to retire from the company in September, a media report said.

https://www.dtnext.in/news/business/indian-american-microsoft-exec-who-helped-build-windows-skype-to-resign-722771

Exclusive: Microsoft faces EU antitrust probe after remedies fall short, sources say [Ed: If the rumours are true, we're also just one business day away from mass layoffs at Microsoft (another big wave)]

Microsoft, which has been fined 2.2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in the previous decade for practices in breach of EU competition rules, including tying or bundling two or more products together, found itself in the EU crosshairs after a complaint by Salesforce-owned (CRM.N) workspace messaging app Slack in 2020.

Microsoft added Teams to Office 365 in 2017 for free, with the app eventually replacing Skype for Business.

Slack alleged that its rival had unfairly integrated workplace chat and video app Teams into its Office product. The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.