Zoom Discusses Microsoft Competition Issues With Regulators: Report
Zoom Video Communications has met with regulators in the United States, the European Union and other jurisdictions to voice its concerns about Microsoft’s alleged anti-competitive behavior, Bloomberg News reported Thursday.
The video conferencing platform has been in talks with the US Federal Trade Commission as well as EU, UK and German competition authorities over the past year, the report said, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Zoom had expressed concerns about the way Microsoft has prioritized chat and video app Teams through price bundling and product design, the report added.
“If you have unfair competition, you can’t win,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in response to a question at the Goldman Sachs Communications & Technology conference on Tuesday.
The FTC declined to comment, while Zoom and Microsoft did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Microsoft had been the subject of an antitrust investigation by the European Union over its integration of Teams with the Office product in July, following a 2020 complaint by Slack, a rival workplace messaging app owned by Salesforce.
A month later, the software giant said it was removing Teams from its Office products and making it easier for competing products to be used with its software in an attempt to avoid a potential EU antitrust fine.
