"The 90s have just called and they see that nothing has changed. We support the action against Microsoft anti-competitive behaviour and urge the European Commission to push for fair competition in the European IT industry, as well as imposing open standards and interoperability as a mean to allow new competitors to enter the market." says Ludovic Dubost, founder and CEO of XWiki. This hurts competition and hinders innovation in Europe. "In the technology industry, many actors use bundling to push new offers and services to captive consumers, allowing them to increase their stronghold on the market. If fines are no longer a strong deterrent, maybe it is time to revisit the original US judgement from 2000 which asked to dismantle Microsoft." says Jean-Paul SMETS, CEO of Rapid.Space. European citizens greatly benefit from having a competitive marketplace and it is the EU who has to ensure it remains this way. "Microsoft has been sentenced in the past in both the US and Europe for abusing their market position. We are back to the end of the 90s with Microsoft dominance," says Valentin Przyluski, CEO of Netframe. "Microsoft is using single point of access to prevent diversity and tie the consumer to its solutions. "We need to re-balance the European market around collaborative tools in order to limit Microsoft's anti-competitive actions around its bundled solutions like MS365". We urge lawmakers to put an end to these practices," says Gaël Duval, founder and of CEO ECorp/Esolutions. Microsoft should compete on the merits of their solution, not pushing it down users throats with anti-competitive behaviours. "By embedding services like OneDrive, Teams or parts of Office 365 in Windows, Microsoft is forcing customer choices and therefore harming the complete IT ecosystem in Europe. We therefore support the initiative of Euclidia member Nextcloud and support the European Commission's determination to ensure a fair competitive landscape across the continent and in the cloud," says Philipp Reisner, Vice-President of Euclidia. What we cannot compete with is dishonnest and massive lobbying, anti-competitive behavior and abuse of dominant market positions. "With Euclidia, we are demonstrating that European SMEs can offer competitive cloud solutions to governments and the industry.
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