Paul Stenhouse: EU Microsoft Office bundles, Australia backtracks online age verification

Microsoft's Office bundle in the EU will look different to the rest of the world 

It'll be missing Teams thanks to an anti-competitive complaint by competitor Slack, made to the European Commission. 

Microsoft is taking the proactive step of offering a bundle —that's cheaper than the current one— that doesn't include Teams. It'll be €2 less per month or €24 per year, which still makes it a more expensive option to get Office and Slack together. 

They'll also offer Teams as a standalone product for €5 per month.  

The Commission is still actively investigating Microsoft, so this may not be the only change we see. 

Australia has backtracked from forcing age verification on adult websites  

The options all proved to have a mix of privacy, security, effectiveness and implementation challenges. The Minister will now work with the industry to educate parents on how to access filtering services and limit children's access to adult content — so effectively, putting the problem back for parents to solve.  

Want to feel old? Gen Z apparently doesn't know how to dial phone numbers with letters in them! 

ZB's sister station ZM had to show a video on their Instagram about how to dial the 0800 number with words! Were they joking? I don't know! 

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