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. This means that more specialised EU companies can't compete on merit, as the key to success is not a good product but the ability to distort competition and block market access. 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. Nextcloud is asking the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition to prevent this sort of thing and keep the market competitive and fair for all players. 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:
NEXTCLOUD EU EUROPEAN COMMISSION MICROSOFT TEAMS SOFTWARE
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. For the sharing of documents, the Agency uses MS Teams cloud services and therefore, Microsoft Ireland is the Agencys processor in this case, on the basis.
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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