This leads to a 'difficult to attack position of Microsoft for competitors'. Spiegel Online writes that Microsoft also uses its market power to sell packaged solutions for Microsoft Office and has also created a 'unique digital ecosystem across several strategically important markets in the digital sector' with activities in other areas, such as the Bing search engine or end devices. Then the privacy commissioners should declare themselves biased and quit their jobs. Unless Microsoft feels to secure in the meantime that it has politics completely in the bag because there is no alternative. But for these last two reasons alone, I see a chrash landing by Microsoft in the European Union, where they will probably have to make improvements. If Microsoft now announces the cheerful message of Windows 11, it is their right. With the Teams integration in Windows 11, Microsoft saddled another pack on top of that, so that the whole thing does not become more GDPR-compliant. Windows 10 was already not GDPR-compliant, and if the data protection authorities had been honest, there should have been a ban on using this operating system in companies.It is a misuse of the market power of an operating system monopolist, which will certainly result in a complaint from Zoom and other services and, as a consequence, conditions imposed by the antitrust authorities.That's because the integration of Teams into Windows 11 inevitably leads to two conflicts that can't be resolved: Well, every management generation at Microsoft has the right to take a beating, and the guys and gals in Redmond are really craving a good thrashing. Away from the statement that Windows 11 cannot be used DSGVO-compliant with it, I wrote on Jin the article Windows 11: Microsoft AMA, the HW requirements, app updates and other insights: I also expected an EU competition complaint with Microsoft Teams, which is integrated into Windows 11 and advertised with great fanfare.

Another cloud integration like Nextcloud's solution is – obviously for me – made more difficult there. Who hasn't been annoyed by the OneDrive popups in Windows when users don't want to use this service? Windows constantly requires a OneDrive login and as a user, you have to disable several options to block that. Nextcloud now argues (imho justifiably) that the deeply integrated connection to OneDrive and the Microsoft cloud in Windows is displayed to Windows users in all relevant work steps.

The cloud solution OneDrive also has a significant market share and is therefore in direct competition with Nextcloud.

The Teams collaboration platform has a significant market share, Spiegel quotes from the complaint.

Specifically, the whole thing revolves around Windows 11 and the integration of OneDrive and Microsoft Teams contained therein. The allegation is that Microsoft has a dominant market position and is exploiting this to thwart competitors. The competition complaint asks the Federal Cartel Office to initiate a formal review process to determine whether the allegations of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft are true.

Competition complaint to the German Federal Cartel OfficeĪccording to German, company founder Frank Karlitschek confirmed yesterday (Friday) the Spiegel report about this competition complaint at the German Federal Cartel Office.

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