

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.

This kind of behavior is bad for the consumer, for the market and, of course, for local businesses in the EU. Lead by Nextcloud, a coalition of European Union (EU) software and cloud organisations and companies formed the 'Coalition for a Level Playing Field'.
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Copy an innovators' product, bundle it with your own dominant product and kill their business, then stop innovating. In the complaint, Germany-based Nextcloud told the European Commission (EC) that Microsoft is aggressively bundling its OneDrive cloud, Teams, and other services with Windows 10 and 11. 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. Best Malware Removal and Protection Software.
