In revealing emails involving Matt Booty dated back to 2021, Microsoft revealed their actual stance on having their first party IP available on competing cloud services.
The document reveals Phil Spencer signing off (via Booty's email) on removing Bethesda games from Nvidia, which were on the service in agreement with the dev teams that developed them i.e. with permission.
Boosteroid - the Romanian cloud provider that duplicitously changed their stated HQ and founder's location to Ukraine on various online platforms after the 10 year deal announcement - also had Xbox 1st party titles available to its subscribers at the time, and Matt Booty's stance, backed up by other members of Microsoft, was "no effin way" regardless of the Azure deal they had in place.
As a reminder, the 10 year agreements strip the cloud providers of any revenue earned from MTX, meaning a company like Boosteroid already has limited ways to monetise between paying MS for Azure and earning nothing from the content.
The CMA skillfully avoided the EU's mistake, stating that they didn't think the 10 year deals reflected Microsoft's true position in the absence of regulatory scrutiny.
The document reveals Phil Spencer signing off (via Booty's email) on removing Bethesda games from Nvidia, which were on the service in agreement with the dev teams that developed them i.e. with permission.
Boosteroid - the Romanian cloud provider that duplicitously changed their stated HQ and founder's location to Ukraine on various online platforms after the 10 year deal announcement - also had Xbox 1st party titles available to its subscribers at the time, and Matt Booty's stance, backed up by other members of Microsoft, was "no effin way" regardless of the Azure deal they had in place.
As a reminder, the 10 year agreements strip the cloud providers of any revenue earned from MTX, meaning a company like Boosteroid already has limited ways to monetise between paying MS for Azure and earning nothing from the content.
The CMA skillfully avoided the EU's mistake, stating that they didn't think the 10 year deals reflected Microsoft's true position in the absence of regulatory scrutiny.
