Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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FTC probably won't do anything until august.
I'd imagine if the CMA approved it last month and with the EC approval, FTC would immediately file for an injuction to prevent microsoft from moving ahead with the acquisition.
FTC now have time on their side and will drag this case out as long as they can. They no doubt will be building their case in the background.
IMO, anything we hear about this case for the next couple of months is just noise. I'm sure some smaller markets will approve the deal, and China might be a wildcard, but the major players are basically locked in with their decision.
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Not only that, but Macs are generally less capable or less in terms of features than Windows laptops at comparable price points.
But, so are Surface laptops, so there is that. Still sucks Windows being the default though; when it's a good time I'll be swapping my laptop from W10 to Linux.
Linux just feels right, now that you can game on it there is no excuse to stay on Windows.
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I'd love to be able to do proper music production with professional VSTs on a Linux. I can't. I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Hopefully that extends to emulators as well. I got a feeling some of my media playback players like PotPlayer would work just fine, as they have Linux distros.
Yeah, this is one of my few reservations. I've jumped back into trying music production recently, but the program I use (MuLab) doesn't have an official Linux distro. I simply can't use other music programs, too used to MuLab's UI and workflow, so I'd have to use Windows for that.
I'm little out of touch from REERA M$/ABK thread? Any reasonable and level headed posts there? I know member gofreak was reasonable at least
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Not just that. A lot of conventional VSTs, etc, don't have a linux version. You can replace by freeware ones, sure, but for my use case it wouldn't be possible to achieve the same standard of quality I want for my own projects.
He's always in there rationally and calmly shutting down the crazies, but no one engages with him for that reason. Every post I read on there yesterday was some masturbatory fantasy about how MS was going to circumvent the airtight ruling handed down by the CMA or pressure UK politicians into overruling them.
I've got an old ProteusVX VST that I haven't managed to get working with my program on Windows 10, and it's kind of annoying. Technically had to install it as its own program on another system though and download some old utility files to get it working, don't want to redo that again.
Doubt it has a Linux version at all; have got to try getting it to work on my laptop though. Love the sound banks it has.
Haven't stepped in that minefield for what feels like a week.
I took a gander at the ree thread today. Still alot of people thinking there is some way Microsoft can work around or bribe the cma. Somewhere between the denial and bargaining stages.
Lol, wouldn't the CMA be in a lot of trouble if they got caught taking bribes?
Of course but the bots don’t matter. They don’t care about anything other than MS controlling the industry.
It looks like the loons on Reee and Installbase are hinging on the hopes that the CAT will erroneously determine cloud to be a distribution model rather than a market, despite the fact that all major regulators agree there is an SLC in the cloud gaming market as a result of this proposed acquisition.
That argument seems to primarily hinge on the premise that if a market has the ability to 'cannibalise' another (cannibalise is loaded language here), or is merely a distribution method for the same content, then it cannot be considered separate.
The reality that continues to be ignored is that we consider the streaming market, dominated by Netflix, Disney, and Amazon, and the theatrical box office market, dominated by a handful of studios (including Disney), to be separate markets, despite the fact that theatrical releases find their way onto streaming services, sometimes simultaneously, and would, to a disingenuous idiot, merely be considered different distribution methods.
Cloud is targeted to a different audience, even if members of that audience overlap. Some of those idiots have outed themselves on Reee as not owning Xbox consoles and only playing on cloud.
That argument seems to primarily hinge on the premise that if a market has the ability to 'cannibalise' another (cannibalise is loaded language here), or is merely a distribution method for the same content, then it cannot be considered separate.
The reality that continues to be ignored is that we consider the streaming market, dominated by Netflix, Disney, and Amazon, and the theatrical box office market, dominated by a handful of studios (including Disney), to be separate markets, despite the fact that theatrical releases find their way onto streaming services, sometimes simultaneously, and would, to a disingenuous idiot, merely be considered different distribution methods.
Cloud is targeted to a different audience, even if members of that audience overlap. Some of those idiots have outed themselves on Reee as not owning Xbox consoles and only playing on cloud.
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