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The European Commission should take a position in this context,” Nextcloud said. Other Big Tech firms are showing similar conduct.

“There are deliberate, abusive practices and those practices are no accidents. “This should be addressed without any further delay.” “Behavior as described above is at the core of this dramatic level of growth of the global tech giants in Europe,” Karlitschek said.

“It illustrates anti-competitive practices such as ‘self-preferencing’ on the basis of the market dominance of Windows.”įrank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud, also pointed out in his blog that over the last several years, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have grown their market shares to 66 per cent of the total European market, while local European software and service providers have declined from 26 per cent to 16 per cent. “Microsoft’s combination of the dominant Windows (operating software) with the OneDrive (cloud) offering makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services,” Nextcloud said in a blog post.

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