In early 2021, Nextcloud GmbH filed an official complaint with the EU Directorate-General for Competition about the behavior of Microsoft. The European Directorate-General for Competition exists precisely for the purpose of preventing this kind of behavior and keeping the market competitive and equal for all players. This gives consumers a free choice.Ĭonsumers should have a free choice and competition should have a fair chance! Anti-competitive behavior complaint Open standards and interoperability that make an easy migration possible.No gate keeping (by bundling, pre-installing or pushing Microsoft services) for a level playing field. We want government to take action and force Microsoft to allow for a level playing field. The companies in this coalition say: this behavior is harming the IT industry and is limiting customer choice. Other Big Tech firms like Google and Amazon are doing the same thing and the EU should take a stand. This is a similar situation than in the late 90s when Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows to compete with Netscape. Behavior like this is at the core of this growth of the tech giants and has to be stopped. In the wider context, you see that over the last years, Microsoft, Google and Amazon have grown their market share to 66% of the total European market, with local providers contracting from 26% to 16%. This makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services. OneDrive is pushed wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows 11. Microsoft is integrating 365 deeper and deeper in their service and software portfolio, including Windows. Big Tech is harming EU consumers and businesses
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