![]() This means that more specialised EU companies cant compete on merit, as the key to success is not a good product but the ability to distort competition and block market access. “Nextcloud has also filed a request with the German antitrust authorities, the Bundeskartellamt, for an investigation against Microsoft,” the report mentioned. Nextcloud is asking the European Commissions Directorate-General for Competition to prevent this sort of thing and keep the market competitive and fair for all players. ![]() Nextcloud has urged the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition to prevent this kind of abusive behavior and keep the market competitive and fair for all players. ![]() Nextcloud alleged that the tech giant 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”.Įnterprise communication platform Slack has also filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union (EU) about Microsoft’s integrating Teams with Office. The company has stated that it will revise its licensing deals to allow customers to use their licenses on any European cloud provider delivering services to their own data centers. Microsoft was yet to react to the formal complaint filed by Nextcloud. 3 weeks ago, Microsoft announced a new strategy shift with the aim to comply with its steady flow of legal complaints from the EU. “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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