Why Zoom Reportedly Told Regulators About Microsoft Competition Concerns

Zoom Video Communications has met with regulators from the United States, European Union, and different jurisdictions to stipulate issues about Microsoft’s alleged anti-competitive conduct, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The video conferencing platform has spoken with the US Federal Trade Commission, in addition to competitors enforcers from the EU, UK, and Germany over the previous 12 months, the report mentioned, citing an individual aware of the matter.

Zoom had expressed its issues about the way in which Microsoft has given choice to its chat and video app Teams by way of worth bundling and product design, the report added.”If you have unfair competition, you may not win,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan mentioned, whereas answering a query on the Goldman Sachs Communications & Technology convention on Tuesday.

FTC declined to remark, whereas Zoom and Microsoft didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for remark.

Microsoft had discovered itself a goal of a European Union antitrust investigation over the bundling of its Teams with its Office product in July, following a grievance by Salesforce-owned competing workspace messaging app Slack in 2020.

A month later, the software program large mentioned it could unbundle Teams from its Office merchandise and make it simpler for competing merchandise to work with its software program, in an try to stave off a attainable EU antitrust superb. 

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