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US FTC Revives Microsoft-Activision Deal Challenge (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] thantik 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Lots of obvious astroturfing going on regarding this. I've seen this news everywhere from Slashdot to Reddit with people sucking Microsofts dick. It's either that, or people are too young to remember the bullshit Microsoft pulled ... since forever basically. People aren't going to benefit from this merger. Microsoft is patient. Embrace, extend, extinguish is their strategy. 10 year agreements are nothing for them to wait out.

And it's the same with every merger -- "This will bring more competition, blah blah blah", then merger goes through and half the people are fired, half the rest are rolled into existing systems, and some empty shell of the previous company just wanders along with no real spirit any longer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"embrace extend extinguish" lemmy's favorite phrase lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Remember Embrace Extend Extinguish, R.E.E.E for short.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow 5 points 1 year ago

Or people old enough to know that Activision has run everything it owns into the ground and basically any new ownership could not possibly be worse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I can see that. Nadella brought new energy and almost made MSFT look cool, but years later we can see how MSFT is basically gobbling up everything in every domain.

Update: Why am I being downvoted? Did you all forget that MSFT has acquired LinkedIn, GitHub, Mojang, Bethesda, ABK and 49% stake in OpenAI all under Satya? Each one of those are massive acquisitions.