Group of European companies denounces Microsoft for the integration of OneDrive and Teams in Windows

A coalition of European Union ‘software’ and ‘cloud’ companies has joined a complaint filed by Nextcloud against Microsoft in the European Commission for considering that the integration of applications such as OneDrive and Teams in operating systems Windows It is anti-competitive for independent developers.

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In recent years, tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon They have increased their market share of ‘software’ as a service (SaaS) to 66% in Europe, while local providers range between 26 and 16%.

The coalition has denounced that Microsoft integrates services such as OneDrive and Teams in its Windows operating system and with it “Aggressively pressures consumers to register and submit their data”.

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This practice, called “Self-preference”, “Limits consumer choice and creates a barrier for other companies offering competing services”, especially the premises with specialized products, as the signatories of the complaint have denounced.

This is how the German software company collects it in a statement Nextcloud, whose complaint against Microsoft, presented to the European Comission, they have added 29 European companies and organizations in the sector.

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The situation with applications Microsoft 365 in Windows it has been compared with the integration of Internet Explorer in this operating system in the early 2000s, which negatively affected the development of other browsers and for which Microsoft it was already fined in the European Union with 1,670 million euros until 2009.

“This type of behavior is bad for the consumer, for the market and, of course, for local businesses in the EU”, has stated the CEO and founder of Nextcloud GmbH, Frank Karlitschek.

“Together with the other members of the coalition, we are calling on the antitrust authorities in Europe to impose a level playing field, giving customers free choice and a fair chance for competition”, added Karlitschek.

This is not the first time that Microsoft has been denounced and later fined due to the practice of “self-preference” in Europe. (Photo: Microsoft)

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