Recently, the European Union Enterprise Alliance filed a complaint with the EU and German antitrust authorities, believing that Microsoft has abused its dominant position in the field of operating systems and forcibly bundled and promoted its services in the fields of cloud services and remote collaboration.
According to this accusation, Microsoft’s increasingly in-depth promotion and integration of Office 365 makes Microsoft’s cloud service OneDrive a natural priority in Windows systems, and Microsoft has made it a default feature of Windows 11 for all users.
This situation not only exists on OneDrive, Microsoft has been using the same way to promote its own remote cooperation software Teams, the software also has running priority on Windows, and it is also used as a default feature of Windows 11 to meet with users.
The European Union Enterprise Alliance believes that remote collaboration and cloud services are the main development directions of the world’s major technology giants, but this behavior of Microsoft is undoubtedly using its own dominant position to squeeze the market space of other companies.
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It should be noted that this is not the first time Microsoft has been sued by antitrust for bundling and promoting software in Windows. As early as the 1990s, Microsoft had been sued for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
This is also the main reason why the European Union Enterprise Alliance is facing such a big enemy: the last time Microsoft’s monopolistic behavior defeated the browser giant Netscape (Netscape), if left alone this time, it will undoubtedly lead to a repeat of the matter.