![]() Remember how Microsoft spent years in hot water in the late ’90s and early ’00s by forcing Internet Explorer on its customers? European open-source cloud company Nextcloud does. Now, with a coalition of other European Union (EU) software and cloud organizations and companies called the “Coalition for a Level Playing Field,” Nextcloud has formally complained to the European Commission (EC) about Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior by aggressively bundling its OneDrive cloud, Teams, and other services with Windows 10 and 11. The Seattle-based company was the target of the first big EU antitrust cases against tech giants in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Microsoft bundling OneDrive with its Microsoft365 software suite. German software company says Microsoft ‘pushes’ its file-hosting service OneDrive in Windows. The main breakthrough of this study is that open-source benefits the public good and that it increases technological independence, competitiveness, and innovation in the EU economy. Nextcloud claims 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. Nextcloud has asked the European Commission to stop Microsoft from pre-installing OneDrive and Teams on Windows to give competitive services a fair chance to. San Francisco, Nov 27 (Ians) A major coalition of European Union (EU) software and cloud organisations called Nextcloud has filed a formal complaint with. A European Commission spokeswoman said that CISPE had informed the Commission. Last September, the European Commission published a comprehensive study about the impact of open-source software and hardware on the EU economy. Specifically, Microsoft has grown its EU market share to 66%, while local providers’ market share declined from 26% to 16%. Microsoft has done this not by any technical advantage or sales benefits, but by heavily favoring its own products and services, self-preferencing over other services. While self-preferencing is not illegal per se under EU competition laws, if a company abuses its dominant market position, it can break the law. Nextcloud in Germany has also lodged a complaint with the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows. ![]() Nextcloud states that Microsoft has outright blocked other cloud service vendors by leveraging its position as gatekeeper to extend its reach in neighboring markets, pushing users deeper into its ecosystems. 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. Just this week it emerged that the European Commissions antitrust team is edging closer to a formal probe of a complaint made by Slack in 2020 over Microsofts decision to bundle Teams with its dominant Office 365 suite.
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