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Gaming is now Microsoft's third largest business, bigger than Windows. Also ABK deal was 75.4 billion, not 68.7b as previously thought.
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Due the close date being delayed twice the Acricision investors got $6 million more than original.
Each delay was $3 billion in the contract.
Each delay was $3 billion in the contract.
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This article probably explain better:
Microsoft has one major hurdle left in its Activision Blizzard deal
The acquisition has a green light in the US, but the UK’s block remains
www.polygon.com
They missed ar least one I believe… I said twice but seems like it was only once… they closed on October 13 few days before the last deadline of October 18.
But at least one fine of $3 billion was added.
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Now I remember that conversation on here. Great.This article probably explain better:
Microsoft has one major hurdle left in its Activision Blizzard deal
The acquisition has a green light in the US, but the UK’s block remains
deal most probably costed more than 80B $. all that lobbying, lawyers etc..
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With all tht money Microsoft has put into their losing gaming venture it does not surprise me.
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Massive amounts of money spent to take over, than layoff and eventual mismanage the portfolio. That is what Microsoft will end up being known for.
$75.4B for ABK + $7.5B for Bethesda + all the other studios acquisitions in around 2018~2019 + all the money burned on the Xbox Series and Gamepass. Get fucked Xbox.
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I'm using windows 7 right now. IMO last good operating system they made. 10/11 is okay. I do like win98/xp lol. But the quality seems to just have gone down with these more recent os's. I think things are just getting too complex.
Microsoft keeps trying to support old hardware with their new OSes and it's fucking everything up
They need to just discontinue support for hardware older than like early 2010s and make a fresh OS that isn't fucking bloated by all the bullshit
All these numbers are spin because of Activision. It doesn't deserve a thread.
Tbh I think there's no reason modern os's can't run on older hardware. They add a lot of stuff that isn't necessary and expect it to just run. New age computing is really bloated with telemetry and other crap that's not necessary.
The 6b extra was the 'washup' component because of ABK's cash reserves growing between the time the initial offer price was made and the time the deal closed. It's a stipulation in the offer that works the other way too i.e. if ABK paid out a bunch of their existing cash to their execs (net) Microsoft would've paid less than the 69.
Nothing to do with the penalties which were only regarding Microsoft failing to complete the acquisition. The initial 3b was renegotiated and not paid out as a part of the extension to the deal close deadline.
Nothing to do with the penalties which were only regarding Microsoft failing to complete the acquisition. The initial 3b was renegotiated and not paid out as a part of the extension to the deal close deadline.
