The video conferencing platform has spoken with the US
Federal Trade Commission, as well as competition enforcers from the EU, UK, and
Germany over the past year, the report said, citing a person familiar with the
matter.
Zoom had expressed its concerns about the way Microsoft has
given preference to its chat and video app Teams through price bundling and
product design, the report added."If you have unfair competition, you may
not win," Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said, while answering a question at the
Goldman Sachs Communications & Technology conference on Tuesday.
FTC declined to comment, while Zoom and Microsoft did not
immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Microsoft had found itself a target of a European Union
antitrust investigation over the bundling of its Teams with its Office product
in July, following a complaint by Salesforce-owned competing workspace
messaging app Slack in 2020.
A month later, the software giant said it would unbundle
Teams from its Office products and make it easier for competing products to
work with its software, in an attempt to stave off a possible EU antitrust fine. © Reuters
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