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		mortehu on July 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Micro... You can't pay for Excel without also paying for Teams. Why would you pay for two team chat solutions? Teams is not actually free for people who don't want the rest of Office. That being said, I don't this should be illegal.

topkai22 on July 22, 2020 [–]

There is a free version of Teams now: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...

Office web apps also have free tiers, although I don't know if there are business licensing restrictions.

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