A states that Microsoft has decided to sell Teams separately from its Office suite of products on a global level. The company has been offering Teams as a free add on to customers who buy Office 365 and Microsoft 365 for years. Teams experienced huge growth during the covid 19 pandemic, growing from 20 million users in November 2019 to 44 million in March 2020 and 75 million one month later, according to . As of last year, Teams had more than 300 million users. Trouble started brewing in 2020
