What is your take on Microsoft’s move? Do you support it? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section.Remember how, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Microsoft got into a lot of trouble by pushing Internet Explorer on its customers? Nextcloud, a European open-source cloud startup, does. This makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services,”states the coalition.Īs such, the coalition also indicates that while Google, Amazon and Microsoft have managed to grow their market share to 66% while their competitors have further lost their reach in the EU from 26% to 16%. OneDrive is pushed wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows 11. “Microsoft is integrating 365 deeper and deeper in their service and software portfolio, including Windows. The coalition comprises a couple of prominent open source and non-profit companies, for instance, the Free Software Foundation Europe, European Digital SME Alliance and the Document Foundation.įurthemore, the coalition categorically indicates that the move by Microsoft is not only affecting the consumers and businesses, but also killing healthy competition among the companies.
The move will help deter Microsoft from using its position in the operating system sector to kill all its competitors. As such, they requested the European Commision to even out the playing field. The coalition raised the argument that Microsoft was acting in bad faith and trying to phase them out. Copy an innovators’ product, bundle it with your own dominant product and kill their business, then stop innovating,” said Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud. “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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