Hopefully Xbox hurts MS as much as possible and then takes down ABK and cloud gaming with it.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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I don't think any decision will be announced today and if, indeed, it doesn't happen, it's safe to say the source from March, that is being rehashed by Reuters, FT and bloomberg, is bogus and the EC might not approve the deal.
Is FT the Financial Times? Because they said the CMA would approve and we know how that turned out.
I don't know who this guy is, but it has been posted on GAF:
Amusing to say the least.
Amusing to say the least.
I don't know who this guy is, but it has been posted on GAF:
Amusing to say the least.
And why does they have 1.6 million followers?!
I don't know who this guy is, but it has been posted on GAF:
Amusing to say the least.
I think that's always been that case hasn't it?
I few months again they issued an anti trust warning to MS over this deal.
Also this tweet seems very generic, could be related to the other complaints they are receiving over the cloud services market.
I remember seeing a couple of
articles about that, like this one.
Microsoft Cloud Service Under Scrutiny From EU Antitrust Arm
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union’s antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm is leveraging its market power to squeeze out rivals.
www.bloomberg.com
Will be certainly interesting if it gets approved with this scrutiny in the cloud services market.I remember seeing a couple of
articles about that, like this one.
Microsoft Cloud Service Under Scrutiny From EU Antitrust Arm
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union’s antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm is leveraging its market power to squeeze out rivals.
This is from today, right? And I think it might be related to the deal, yes.I remember seeing a couple of
articles about that, like this one.
Microsoft Cloud Service Under Scrutiny From EU Antitrust Arm
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union’s antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm is leveraging its market power to squeeze out rivals.
It just fuels the suspicion that the previous source was bogus and the EC will, potentially, block the deal.
Approved with concessions?
Still dead, though. CMA won't budge.
Also, the concessions are a joke, they accepted those trojan horse deals MS made.
Glad the CMA is not as naive as them.
Still dead, though. CMA won't budge.
Also, the concessions are a joke, they accepted those trojan horse deals MS made.
Glad the CMA is not as naive as them.
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EU just approved. Not surprising but disappointing.
www.google.com
EU approves Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, clearing major hurdle
Microsoft offered remedies in cloud gaming to earn the approval of European Union regulators for the $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition.
So now instead of ending this deal right here now, Microsoft is going to drag this out for at least another year unless Bobby decides he wants his 3 billion in July. Insane.
One year? Doubt it. This will be dragged for two to three years.
Sucks for MS, though. They'll get less and less relevant in the gaming space as long as they focus on this instead of focusing on its gaming division itself.
The EU had the chance to put an end to this now, but they've ensured that this gets dragged out for another year at least.
Sucks for MS. Their loss, CMA won't budge. MS and ABK attacking the brits made things worse for them.
Since the beginning, Idas and even adamsapple told everyone CMA was the one to be wary of and that hasn't changed.
The deal needs FTC, EC and CMA approval.
No CMA, no deal.
And to those saying it makes no sense for MS to appeal if there's no way to overturn the decision, the reason for this is simple: they have to pursue all avenues possible, else they'll be sued to oblivion by the shareholders.
According to Bloomberg, the chances of overturning the CMA decision are still very low:
So, don't believe what xbots will tell you, the deal is still dead.
So, don't believe what xbots will tell you, the deal is still dead.
At least now we don't have to worry about waiting for what the next regulator's decision is going to be, barring any drama over whatever luck the FTC has in court.
It seemed like from the beginning the EU took the softest stance on MS out if the big 3 regulators.
They argued in their final report that Playstation is too popular in the EU for MS to want to pull COD off of it. They also argued that CoD isn't that popular in the EU anyway.
It seemed like from the beginning the EU took the softest stance on MS out if the big 3 regulators.
They argued in their final report that Playstation is too popular in the EU for MS to want to pull COD off of it. They also argued that CoD isn't that popular in the EU anyway.
I'd love to see data they got that conclusion from.