![]() The European Commission should take a position in this context,” Nextcloud said. Other Big Tech firms are showing similar conduct. “There are deliberate, abusive practices and those practices are no accidents. “This should be addressed without any further delay.” ![]() ![]() “Behavior as described above is at the core of this dramatic level of growth of the global tech giants in Europe,” Karlitschek said. “It illustrates anti-competitive practices such as ‘self-preferencing’ on the basis of the market dominance of Windows.”įrank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud, also pointed out in his blog that over the last several years, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have grown their market shares to 66% of the total European market, while local European software and service providers have declined from 26% to 16%. The company also believes that the EU's proposed Digital Markets Act could reign in Microsoft's gatekeeper position to give smaller players a fair chance at competing in the European market.“Microsoft’s combination of the dominant Windows (operating software) with the OneDrive (cloud) offering makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services,” Nextcloud said in a blog post. Nextcloud says it filed a complaint with German authorities due to waning interest in the original complaint filed with the EU earlier this year, and that it plans to lodge one with French authorities soon.
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