The report stated that Nextcloud had also requested an investigation into Microsoft from the Bundeskartellamt (German antitrust authorities). 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. Slack, an enterprise communication platform, has also filed an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s integration of Teams with Office. It is about the integration of OneDrive and Microsoft Teams in Windows 11. The accusation is that Microsoft has a dominant market position and is exploiting it. 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. German Stuttgart-based software company Nextcloud has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft with the German Federal Cartel Office. Microsoft had not yet responded to Nextcloud’s formal complaint. “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. “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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