u. n t. trust fine. let's take a closer look now at the crowns to this case. european commission received a complaint of possible anti competitive prices by microsoft in 2020 was by the owners of a competing workspace messaging app known as slack. you're paying commission opened a full anti trust investigation in july 2023 into microsoft bundling of teams with other office products. so i think anti competitive concerns. european commission is also investigating microsoft of all the anti trust consensus. they include the level of its fees and the ability of compressed messaging services to interface with office applications. microsoft with the fine of as much as 10 percent of its global annual revenues. if found guilty of anti trust breaches has racked up gold and $2400000000.00 in a u. n. t. trust funds in the past decade. or joining us now from brussels. it's christina casara. he's a well known economist who's worked as an express on the most high profile and to trust the cases over the past 20 years ad

u. n. t. trust funds in the past decade. or joining us now from brussels. it's christina casara. he's a well known economist who's worked as an express on the most high profile and to trust the cases over the past 20 years advising both companies and go, let's say, christina, you a well well place to be talking about this here on comes into the cause thanks very much for joining us. how much of a victory is this for microsoft compressing says that space has now been made for alternatives like flash and zoom. what microsoft has done to activity has to be said in the sense that they would not explicitly for us to do this yet by the commission. we have fall from the stage where the european commission can monday. so it's an outcomes, it is proactively seeking to deflect on site. what microsoft has done is to say, okay, i'm, i'm bundling this me, i'm essentially allowing people to create their own model. you want the office suite, you buy up a small discount. this is for new customers. you want to match it with at teams as he was before you think about you can buy gene standalone for