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Posted on 13th July 2023 |
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This story on The BBC reports on Microsoft's attempt to take over major games publisher Activision Blizzard, makers of Call Of Duty, World Of Warcraft and Candy Crush. For Microsoft this is business as usual. The company has a long history of being bad at innovation, and of solving this problem by taking over companies to fill the innovation gap; this has been going on since the very early days of Windows. I think that it might be time for the authorities to break up Microsoft, in the same way as they did to AT&T. This would not only help solve their innovation shortfall, but also help stamp out Microsoft's uncompetitive practices. | |