Microsoft, Google and Amazon together account for 66pc of the cloud market, according to a report earlier this year, while local businesses have seen their share drop from 26pc to 16pc. Nextcloud’s complaint said that three big tech companies dominate two-thirds of the market in Europe. This kind of behaviour is bad for the consumer, for the market and, of course, for local businesses in the EU,” Karlitschek added. “Copy an innovator’s product, bundle it with your own dominant product and kill their business, then stop innovating. This led to some of the early antitrust cases in the EU against Big Tech. Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows in the 1990s and 2000s to compete with other tech players such as Netscape. “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,” said Nextcloud founder and chief executive Frank Karlitschek, referring to Internet Explorer. John Dinsdale, the chief analyst at Synergy, said it is difficult for European cloud companies to keep up with the growing scale and speed of US cloud companies adding that all the three companies are pouring billions into their cloud operations every quarter.Berlin-based software maker Nextcloud claimed that Microsoft bundling OneDrive and Teams with Windows is harming local EU competition.Ī group of tech companies in the EU, led by German software maker Nextcloud, has called out Microsoft on anti-competition grounds for favouring its own products on the market-leading Windows OS.īerlin-based Nextcloud claimed that by bundling services such as OneDrive and Teams with Windows for new customers, and “aggressively” asking them to sign up, Microsoft is making it hard for EU businesses to compete. According to the Synergy Research Group, these three occupy 69% of the European cloud market today. As the European cloud market grows, much of that growth extends to the top three US cloud providers: Microsoft, Amazon, and Google Cloud. The US Federal Trade Commission will consider whether Activision's transactions will significantly reduce competition in the gaming market. for $ 75 billion, is seeking approval, one of the biggest deals to date, which is also being considered by regulators. The company, which acquired game developer Activision Blizzard Inc. New complaints against Microsoft occur at a critical time for Microsoft. Last year, German cloud storage company Nextcloud complained to the EU about Microsoft bundling OneDrive storage products with the Windows operating system. complained to the EU that Microsoft bundled its rival work collaboration product Teams with popular Office software. In 2020, San Francisco-based messaging app Slack Technologies Inc. Two other recent complaints in Europe also claimed that Microsoft bundled cloud products in an anti-competitive way. OHVcloud has said that the complaint was filed jointly with other companies and refused to name the other companies. The complaint mentions the ways in which Microsoft licenses its products, such as its office productivity suite, that may make it more expensive to use cloud services that compete with Microsoft's Azure cloud. OVHcloud said it has filed a complaint with the European Commission, the highest competition authority in the European Union. MSFT adds to recent criticisms of corporate competitive practices that have largely avoided the scrutiny of recent regulations targeting competing tech giants. A French cloud computing company has filed an antitrust allegation against Microsoft Corp in Europe.
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