bundling services, including OneDrive, with Windows. A major coalition of European Union (EU) software and cloud organizations called Nextcloud has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission (EC) about Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior, especially the OneDrive Cloud and Windows integration. "This kind of behaviour is bad for the consumer, for the market and, of course, for local businesses in the EU," he added. "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. A coalition of European Union companies and groups led by Nextcloud GmbH has filed a complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft Corp. "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 Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud. "Copy an innovators' product, bundle it with your own dominant product and kill their business, then stop innovating. The coalition said Microsoft has grown its market share to 66% of the EU market in the last few years while smaller vendors have seen their shares shrink by as much as 26%. The companies claim the practice is pushing consumers to register for the services and hand their data over to Microsoft, stifling consumer choice and genuine market competition. Office 365 (Office online, OneDrive, OneNote, Planner, Teams, Yammer. The tech firms driving the complaint are against Microsoft's "monopolistic" practice of bundling the likes of OneDrive, Teams, and other services with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Protection of personal data / Microsoft products used by European Union staff. Antitrust regulators from the European Commission (EC) are reportedly asking Microsoft's rivals if Teams has more market clout because it is bundled in with the company.
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