Stefan Mileschin

Tame Apple press rejoices

Microsoft has managed to stay out of the antitrust problems faced by Big Tech such as Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook, but it now appears that it is going to have a little monopoly allegation all its own for its legal teams to play with.

For those with memories who have not been shot by years of alcohol, hookers and blow and computer games, Vole spent the late '90s and early '00s in antitrust trouble forcing Internet Exploder browser on its customers.

Now European open-source cloud company Nextcloud does has formally complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour by aggressively bundling its OneDrive cloud, Teams, and other services with Windows 10 and 11.

Nextcloud claims that by pushing consumers to sign up and hand over their data to Microsoft, the Vole is limiting consumer choice and creating an unfair barrier for other companies offering competing services.

Microsoft has grown its EU market share to 66 percent, while local providers' market share declined from 26 percent to 16 percent. Microsoft has done this not by any technical advantage or sales benefits, but by heavily favouring its own products and services, self-preferencing over other services.

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