EU coalition slams Microsoft OneDrive-Windows integration

San Francisco: A major coalition of European Union (EU) software and cloud organisations called Nextcloud has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission (EC) about Microsoft’s anti-competitive behaviour, especially the OneDrive Cloud and Windows integration.
In the complaint, Nextcloud and almost 30 other European companies claimed that by pushing consumers to sign up and hand over their data to Microsoft, “the Windows giant is limiting consumer choice and creating an unfair barrier for other companies offering competing services,” reports ZDNet.
“This is quite similar to what Microsoft did when it killed the competition in the browser market, stopping nearly all browser innovations for over a decade,” said Frank Karlitschek, Nextloud’s CEO and Founder.
“Together with the other members of the coalition, we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and giving the competition a fair chance,” he said in a statement.
Microsoft was yet to react to the formal complaint filed by Nextcloud.