It does not appear that the cloud firms are accusing Microsoft of infringing IP but we've asked the CEO to clarify. We have asked Nextcloud for a copy of the complaint. Copy an innovators' product, bundle it with your own dominant product and kill their business, then stop innovating." "Behavior like this is at the core of this growth of the tech giants and has to be stopped," it thundered.įrank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud GmbH, 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.
Nextcloud points to growth in the share of the EU software-as-a-service market by the US tech giants (Microsoft, Amazon and Google are singled out) to 66 per cent while homegrown alternatives have dropped to 16 per cent. So once more the antitrust lawyers are sharpening their knives. Today, the concerns are in relation to how difficult it is to avoid OneDrive when dealing with storage in Windows that business app Teams turned up built into Windows 11 and all manner of Microsoft 365 grumbles. The accusation of bundling is reminiscent of concerns raised during the 1990s browser wars, when Microsoft eventually received a severe slap on the wrist over Internet Explorer. Nextcloud sells on-premises collaboration platforms that it claims combine "the convenience and ease of use of consumer-grade solutions like Dropbox and Google Drive with the security, privacy and control business needs." Microsoft's cloud storage system, OneDrive, is conspicuous by its absence. The issue is OneDrive and Microsoft's habit of packaging it (and other services such as Teams) with Windows software.
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EU software and cloud businesses have joined Nextcloud in filing a complaint with the European Commission regarding Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behaviour over the bundling of its OS with online services.
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