[starfox64_]

> Microsoft was already contemplating separating the two products, possibly as a pre-emptive measure to prevent antitrust investigations.

More like a pre-emptive measure to charge customers more for access to Teams

[_cenw]

Through 3 employers over 5 years, all have switched from Slack to Teams partially or entirely because someone in upper management thought they were equivalent enough to cut the extra expense of Slack. It doesn't even make Microsoft any money (yet), it's just there to kill competitors.