The company has also filed a complaint against Microsoft of a similar nature with Germany’s own antitrust authorities. Nextcloud’s complaint has since won the support of more than 50 tech firms and non-profit organisations, leading to the formation of a coalition that is collectively speaking out against how Microsoft sells and packages its cloud software in Europe. It claims this practice is “aggressively pushing consumers to sign up and hand over their data to Microsoft”. Nextcloud’s antitrust complaint, filed in early 2021, takes umbrage at the way Microsoft bundles its OneDrive cloud storage service and online collaboration platform Teams in with its flagship Windows operating system. This information is based on complaints filed with the European Commission by several European cloud service providers, including German file sync and share software maker NextCloud and French infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider OVHcloud.
“The commission has information that Microsoft may be using its potentially dominant position in certain software markets to foreclose competition regarding certain cloud computing services,” the questionnaire said, reported Reuters. Microsoft published a blog post this week acknowledging the antitrust concerns that have been raised with regulators and authorities about its cloud-related business practices in Europe, which it also used to outline a series of “meaningful” actions it would take to address the issues raised.Īs detailed in a report on Reuters last month, these concerns are known to have prompted the European Commission’s antitrust authorities to send a questionnaire to Microsoft customers and competitors, asking for their views on Microsoft’s cloud-related licensing deals.
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