Zoom met with US and EU regulators to discuss alleged Microsoft anti-competitive behavior: According to a report

Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that Zoom Video Communications met with authorities from the United States, the European Union, and other jurisdictions to express concerns about Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive activity. According to a source familiar with the subject, the video conferencing platform has engaged with the US Federal Trade Commission as well as competition authorities from the EU, UK, and Germany during the last year.

Zoom has voiced worries about how Microsoft has prioritized its chat and video app Teams through price bundling and product design, according to the source."If you have unfair competition, you may not win," Zoom CEO Eric Yuan remarked on Tuesday during a question and answer session at the Goldman Sachs Communications & Technology conference.

The FTC declined to comment, while Zoom and Microsoft did not reply quickly to Reuters' requests for comment.

In July, Microsoft became the subject of a European Union antitrust probe for bundling Teams with its Office product, after a complaint by Salesforce-owned competitive workplace messaging tool Slack in 2020.

A month later, the software behemoth said that Microsoft will unbundle Teams from its Office products and make it simpler for competing solutions to integrate with its software in an effort to avoid a potential EU antitrust penalties.