“The global tech platforms often abuse their market dominance to prevent smaller competitors from succeeding. Speaking up against Big Tech’s unfair behavioursĪs a representative of small and medium-sized enterprises in the ICT sector, the European DIGITAL SME Alliance welcomes this initiative by Nextcloud. These solutions are functionally similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive.
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Nextcloud is a German software SME that offers open source solutions for organisations and individuals who want to host their own secure cloud services with features like file sharing and collaboration. Over the last years, Microsoft, Google and Amazon have grown their market share to 66% of the total European market, with local providers contracting from 26% to 16%. According to Nextcloud, this behaviour by Microsoft limits consumer choice and creates a barrier for other companies offering competing services. Nextcloud GmbH has filed a formal complaint to the European Commission over Microsoft’s anti-competitive behaviour by bundling its OneDrive cloud, Teams and other services with Windows and aggressively pushing consumers to sign up and hand over their data to Microsoft. “Only by forcing everyone to play by the rules will consumers be able to choose the best digital products in an open and competitive market, where SMEs can also win,” remarked DIGITAL SME Secretary-General Sebastiano Toffaletti.Therefore, the European DIGITAL SME Alliance strongly welcomes this initiative. It is important that SMEs speak up against dominant behaviours by Big Tech.Nextcloud has filed an official complaint with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition about the alleged anti-competitive practices of Microsoft related to OneDrive.
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