BRUSSELS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The European Commission

has accepted commitments offered by Microsoft ( MSFT ) to

address competition concerns related to its Teams platform, the

EU executive body said on Friday.

Under the commitments, Microsoft ( MSFT ) will make available

versions of Office 365 and Microsoft ( MSFT ) 365 suites without Teams

and at a reduced price, among other changes.

Nanna-Louise Linde, a Microsoft ( MSFT ) vice president for European

government affairs, said in a statement: "We appreciate the

dialogue with the Commission that led to this agreement, and we

turn now to implementing these new obligations promptly and

fully."

EU regulators opened an investigation after a complaint by

Slack Technologies Inc, now owned by Salesforce Inc. ( CRM )

German rival alfaview also filed a similar complaint.

Regulators' preliminary decision was that Microsoft ( MSFT ) had

granted Teams an undue competitive advantage and restricted

competition in the market for cloud-based communication and

collaboration products when it bundled Teams with productivity

applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Microsoft ( MSFT ) unbundled Teams from Office after the EU probe was

opened, but regulators found the changes were insufficient.

Reuters reported in May that Microsoft ( MSFT ) was expected to avoid

an antitrust fine as EU regulators were likely to accept its

offer on Office and Teams products.