Zoom Spoke With Regulators on Microsoft Competition Concerns
- Microsoft under scrutiny in EU about Teams software bundling
- Zoom had been quiet on the issue until CEO spoke out this week
Zoom expressed concerns about the way Microsoft gives preference to its Teams videoconferencing software through price bundling and product design.
Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/BloombergZoom Video Communications Inc. has met with regulators from the US, European Union and other jurisdictions to outline concerns about allegedly anticompetitive behavior by Microsoft Corp.
The communications software maker has talked with the US Federal Trade Commission, as well as competition enforcers from the EU, UK and Germany over the past year, according to a person familiar with the matter. Zoom expressed concerns about the way Microsoft gives preference to its Teams videoconferencing software through price bundling and product design, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private.