It looks like Microsoft will soon be able to remove the Microsoft Teams Chat feature from Windows 11 PCs, but currently the feature cannot be uninstalled. Microsoft appears to be reacting to concerns about a possible antitrust investigation from the European Commission after several companies complained that Teams had become too popular.
We’ve all been victims of bloatware. For a company like Microsoft, which has a near monopoly on PC gamers’ operating systems, preventing apps from being uninstalled from the OS is a clever tactic to get users to use their lesser-known products. Well…or at least it’s a clever tactic to make it look human, using it when it really isn’t.
As Latest version of Windows It’s currently possible to unpin Teams Chat from the Windows 11 taskbar in the settings menu, but it’s not possible to completely uninstall it. You can press the little toggle, but it just resides on your PC and takes up space. In fact, in Windows 11, you can’t find Microsoft Teams Chat under installed apps, so I’m not sure how much of it takes up your precious storage space, but it’s still resident in the taskbar’s personalization menu. , teasing the user with mere content. Existence.
However, it looks like it will soon be possible to completely remove it from the system instead of just turning it off in the settings. What about prizes? The May Windows 11 preview builds included references to the “RemoveChat” feature, which completely wipes software from the system, and mentions that it used to exist.
Teams Chat bundles Microsoft products that, frankly, are necessary, and other telcos are getting a little irate at Microsoft’s clever competitiveness.
Back in 2020, Slack and several others made it clear to the European Union that Microsoft forcing Windows users to use Teams was a bit unfair to their business.
Like, what does Slack do by coming up with competing OSes to make its apps stand out?
A spokesperson for the European Commission said. Reuters At the time, they “received several complaints about Microsoft, including one from Slack regarding Microsoft’s conduct related to its Teams product.” With an antitrust investigation from the coalition looming, Microsoft now appears to be making amends.
Microsoft 365 or Office 365 for Business may also stop bundling software. I hope this announcement will give companies like Slack (my personal haven) more opportunities when it comes to business communications.
