Worth Reading – Teams in Microsoft 365 is back for good (but it’s your choice)

As if licensing wasn’t difficult enough, things are changing again, thanks to an agreement with the EU:

To resolve the issue, Microsoft agreed and committed to:

• Offering Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites with or without Teams globally, not just in Europe.

• Introducing new pricing tiers that reflect organisations choice of whether to have teams or not have teams included, with clearer cost differentiation.

• Enhancing interoperability and data portability, which will allow customers  more transparent ways to migrate Teams data to other and competing platforms.

• Providing APIs and developer tools to support third-party integrations to further promote a more open and fair ecosystem.

https://robquickenden.blog/2025/09/microsoftteams-antitrust/

Apparently, instead of purchasing M365 licenses and then additional Teams licenses, your M365 licenses will come in with or without Teams flavors.

Forgive me for picturing your MS partner with a headset asking, “Do you want Teams with that?” 

That seems to be how we’ll be ordering our licensing in the future, though.

Perhaps the more interesting thing to keep an eye on is the data portability and API tools. That opens up a lot of possibilities, and some eDiscovery questions. We shall see what happens on that front.