Collaborate Disseminate
Among the many leaked Xbox documents is a fascinating peek at Microsoft’s strategy for Xbox over the next ten years. Here are a few thoughts about this vision for the future.
But first, be sure to read Laurent’s news coverage of this unprecedented even… Continue reading Redacted: Achieve Industry Leadership by 2030 (Premium)
The EU said today that it would determine whether Microsoft’s new UK concessions represent a reneging of its own deal with the software giant.
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With the UK Competition and Markets Authority CMA unexpectedly pushing back against Microsoft’s admittedly concession-free “material changes” in its Activision Blizzard acquisition, the software giant, finally, has blinked. And it is now offering a com… Continue reading Pushback (Premium)
You’ve all seen the news: the prices of the online services we all subscribe to are going up this year. That it’s time to scale back is obvious, but the good news is that we have more choices than ever. And that’s especially true of streaming video ser… Continue reading Subscription Sticker Shock: Streaming Video, Music, Storage, and More (Premium)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) were both embarrassed in recent weeks by Microsoft when their justifications for blocking the Activision Blizzard acquisition were exposed as irrational nonsense. An… Continue reading A Tale of Two (OK, Three) Antitrust Regulators (Premium)
Like many, I’m curious how Activision Blizzard will impact Microsoft’s financial results going forward. And so I did some math. And then some outright guessing. And then some more math.
More to the point, I looked at the company’s quarterly revenues fo… Continue reading Microsoft + Activision Blizzard: Show Me the Money! (Premium)
The FTC granted Microsoft’s request to halt an internal trial that was scheduled for August, too late to prevent the Activision Blizzard acquisition.
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And no, I’m not just talking about Activision Blizzard: with the shift from Xbox Live Gold to Xbox Game Pass Core, Microsoft has once again made its video gaming ecosystem better for everyone.
As Laurent noted in his coverage of this shift, Xbox Live G… Continue reading Xbox Just Keeps Getting Better (Premium)
In yet another legal victory for Microsoft, a U.S. Appeals court has ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) emergency motion to halt the software giant’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed Microsoft a stunning legal victory yesterday. She got almost everything exactly right.
As I’m sure you know, Microsoft announced that it intended to acquire Activision Blizzard in January 2022 fo… Continue reading This Time, Common Sense Prevailed (Premium)