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This is not the only similar complaint against Microsoft. According to Karlitschek, Microsoft “almost stopped innovation in browsers for more than a decade”, assuring that this type of practice “is negative for the consumer, the market, and the local business in Europe”.

Nextcloud originally made an official complaint to the EU Directorate-General earlier in 2021 and is now asking the European Commission to ensure that Microsoft doesn't, in its eyes, abuse its position in the operating system arena.Read: How to Get Back an Old Hi5 Account with the Photos and Posts You Hadįrank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud, mentioned Internet Explorer at the time when Microsoft limited the use of browsers to its own for years, hurting competitors like Netscape. The Register has contacted Microsoft regarding Nextcloud's complaint, and will update should the company respond. Slack slung a competition sueball in 2020 as it battled Microsoft Teams, and last month a report was published by the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) calling for the licensing antics of 'legacy' software players (such as Microsoft) to be brought to heel. Only EU can help us, pleads Slack as it slings competition complaint against Microsoft TeamsĪlthough things quietened down for Microsoft somewhat in the decade after the infamous browser wars debacle, complaints about its behaviour have been increasing in recent times.EU digital rules must consider anti-competitive licensing terms, say cloud sellers.Regulators on three continents probing Nvidia's $40bn purchase of Arm, CFO confirms.Companies toiling away the most on LibreOffice code complain ecosystem is 'beyond utterly broken'.Privacy Sandbox saga continues: UK watchdog extracts more commitments from Google over ad tech.'Big Tech's actions,' he said, 'based on their monopoly power in the operating system area, force consumers to use proprietary software, thus reducing their freedom and digital rights.'

Nextcloud's coalition includes The Document Foundation (of LibreOffice fame), whose chairman Lothar Becker said that it was up to European citizens to select their productivity tools.

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