Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has now sided ...

Microsoft now appears to well on its way to the overall approval of its Activision Blizzard acquisition, as it’s just scored probably its largest victory yet. The UK’s CMA, the most skeptical ...

It feared the deal would lead to “reduced innovation and less choice for UK gamers over the years to come.” It said that a solution proposed by Microsoft ... are on our side: this deal ...

Microsoft said pausing the case would allow all sides to try and ... the concerns that the CMA has identified.” Microsoft’s lawyer Daniel Beard said: “The UK is the only impediment to ...

Microsoft later went on to condemn Google for “talking out of both sides of its corporate ... “major investor” in the UK economy for four decades, urging the CMA to tread carefully to ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The UK’s Competition ... for the console side of its concerns ...

The UK regulators at the ... "What the CMA has sought to do in its skeleton argument is articulate that based upon the discussions to date, both sides, Microsoft and the CMA, have confidence ...

Microsoft Corp. has launched ... and the wait may well be worth it for all sides. The rejig has been constructed to assuage the concerns of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, which ...

One source close to the deal, who asked not to be named, said they were surprised by the CMA's decision, saying it looked like the UK regulator ... the two sides are now focused on modifying ...

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick predicted that the UK would become ... platforms. The CMA's decision flies in the face of all logic and reason, baffling experts on all sides. None of this is an ...

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has given Microsoft just over a month to prepare a response to a group legal claim over ...