The cloud solution OneDrive also has a significant market share and is therefore in direct competition with Nextcloud.The Teams collaboration platform has a significant market share, Spiegel quotes from the complaint.Specifically, the whole thing revolves around Windows 11 and the integration of OneDrive and Microsoft Teams contained therein. The allegation is that Microsoft has a dominant market position and is exploiting this to thwart competitors. The competition complaint asks the Federal Cartel Office to initiate a formal review process to determine whether the allegations of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft are true. Microsoft didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.Competition complaint to the German Federal Cartel OfficeĪccording to German, company founder Frank Karlitschek confirmed yesterday (Friday) the Spiegel report about this competition complaint at the German Federal Cartel Office.
It's also asked Germany's national competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, to investigate Microsoft and says that it's "discussing a complaint in France with its coalition members" as well. Nextcloud says it has filed an official complaint with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition specifically about the bundling of OneDrive with Windows. 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.Nextcloud says this coalition has two demands for the European Union: The company's push for the European Commission to intercede has attracted support from numerous European organizations and companies alike, with the list of backers including The Free Software Foundation Europe, Onlyoffice, The European Digital SME Alliance, and more. 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 to give competition a fair chance. This kind of behavior is bad for the consumer, for the market and, of course, for local businesses in the EU.
Copy an innovators' product, bundle it with your own dominant product and kill their business, then stop innovating. Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek said in a statement: This is quite similar to what Microsoft did when it killed competition in the browser market, stopping nearly all browser innovation for over a decade.
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