![]() ![]() The report stated that Nextcloud had also requested an investigation into Microsoft from the Bundeskartellamt (German antitrust authorities). Lead by Nextcloud, a coalition of European Union (EU) software and cloud organisations and companies formed the ' Coalition for a Level Playing Field '. Nextcloud has asked the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission to stop this type of abusive behavior and keep the market fair and competitive for all players. In the complaint, Germany-based Nextcloud told the European Commission (EC) that Microsoft is aggressively bundling its OneDrive cloud, Teams, and other services with Windows 10 and 11. ![]() Slack, an enterprise communication platform, has also filed an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s integration of Teams with Office. Nextcloud claimed that the tech giant “outright blocked” other cloud service vendors by using its position of gatekeeper to expand its reach in neighbouring countries and push users deeper into its ecosystems. Microsoft had not yet responded to Nextcloud’s formal complaint. OVHcloud, along with other European tech firms, complained to the European Commission last summer, saying that Microsoft's licenses for cloud-based products such as the Office productivity suite unduly favor Microsoft's own Azure cloud, because Microsoft software works better and is available more. “Together, with the other members in the coalition, we are asking European antitrust authorities to enforce a level playing ground, giving customers a choice and giving competition a fair chance,” he stated in a statement. French cloud provider OVHcloud has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in Europe. ![]() “This is very similar to what Microsoft did when they killed the competition in browser market, stopping almost all browser innovations for more than a decade,” Frank Karlitschek (Nextloud CEO and Founder) said. ![]()
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