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Enterprise communication platform Slack has also filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union (EU) about Microsoft's integrating Teams with Office. Nextcloud alleged that the tech giant has 'outright blocked other cloud service vendors by leveraging its position as gatekeeper to extend its reach in neighbouring markets, pushing users deeper into its ecosystems'. Microsoft was yet to react to the formal complaint filed by Nextcloud.

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'Together with the other members of the coalition, we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and giving the competition a fair chance,' he said in a statement. 'This is quite similar to what Microsoft did when it killed the competition in the browser market, stopping nearly all browser innovations for over a decade,' said Frank Karlitschek, Nextloud's CEO and Founder.

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In the complaint, Nextcloud and almost 30 other European companies claimed that by pushing consumers to sign up and hand over their data to Microsoft, 'the Windows giant is limiting consumer choice and creating an unfair barrier for other companies offering competing services,' reports ZDNet.

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San Francisco, Nov 27 (IANS) A major coalition of European Union (EU) software and cloud organisations called Nextcloud has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission (EC) about Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour, especially the OneDrive Cloud and Windows integration.

With support from the alliance, which includes members such as The Document Foundation, Free Software Foundation Europe and more than 20 technology companies, Nextcloud has sent formal complaints about Microsoft’s practices to both the European Commission General Directorate of Competition the German competition authority, Bundeskartellamt.EU coalition slams Microsoft OneDrive-Windows integration Together with other members of the alliance, we are asking competition authorities in Europe to impose equal competition terms, give customers freedom of choice and give competition a real chance, Karlicic continues. This form of behavior is harmful to consumers, the market and of course local businesses in the European Union. This is similar to what Microsoft did when it killed competition in the browser market by discontinuing nearly all browser innovation for more than a decade, says Frank Karlicic, CEO and founder of Nextcloud.Ĭopy the product to an innovator, group it with your controlling product, stop its business, and then stop innovating. See also Metadata will expire in seconds As with Internet Explorer The argument against this may be that Microsoft may offer functionality that competitors do not, but Nextcloud claims that Microsoft’s more niche competitors are uncompetitive because the key to success is not a good product, but the ability to destroy competition and block access. Nextcloud believes that Microsoft greatly favors its products and services, and that the company has a gatekeeper position that it is exploiting to win shares in more and more nearby markets, which according to Nextcloud means users are drawn deeper and deeper into Microsoft’s ecosystem. The company claims, without citing any source, that in just a few years, Microsoft managed to capture a 66 percent share of the European cloud storage market, while at the same time dropping the overall share of local providers from 26 to 16 percent.

This limits consumers’ choices and creates a barrier for other companies offering competing services, Nextcloud writes.

The press release also states that Microsoft is serious about its attempts to get consumers to register and transfer their data to Microsoft services.

The alliance was created at the initiative of the German cloud representative Nextcloud, which was created in Press release He writes that Microsoft is now repeating previous proprietary actions by bundling apps and services like Onedrive and Teams for Windows. A consortium of self-proclaimed European software and cloud companies Alliance for a level playing field, has recently sent a formal complaint to the European Commission about what they consider to be anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft in connection with the company’s Onedrive service.

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