![]() company with the European Commission and the German competition authority and was planning further action with the French regulator. ![]() German software company Nextcloud made public today that it had filed complaints against the U.S. "Nextcloud has also filed a request with the German antitrust authorities, the Bundeskartellamt, for an investigation against Microsoft," the report mentioned. Microsoft’s European antitrust concerns are growing. It is due to the integration of Windows 10 and 11 with the OneDrive cloud. Nextcloud has urged the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition to prevent this kind of abusive behaviour and keep the market competitive and fair for all players. Microsoft for anticompetitive practices before the European Commission. 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".Įnterprise communication platform Slack has also filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union (EU) about Microsoft's integrating Teams with Office. November 29, Brussels A coalition of EU software and cloud businesses joined Nextcloud GmbH in respect of their formal complaint to the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior in respect of its OneDrive (cloud) offering. company with the European Commission and the German competition authority and was planning further action with the French regulator. Admittedly, what Microsoft is doing with its preferential treatment of OneDrive isn't technically an abuse of EU competition laws, Nextcloud CEO and founder Frank Karlitschek would like to use. Microsoft was yet to react to the formal complaint filed by Nextcloud. Microsoft's European antitrust concerns are growing. "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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