Microsoft is acquiring publisher/developer/pariah Activision Blizzard for 68 billion dollars

It’s complicated. There has been a cultural shift away from the cutthroat Microsoft of the past. The Satya era is one where diversity & inclusion are a priority, and the cutthroat behavior is no longer in vogue, in favor of a more collaborative culture.

When it comes down to business goals, it’s less now trying to come out with an MSFT version of everything and “embrace, extend, extinguish” but there’s business units which are still clearly operating in that mode. See: Edge browser links kerfuffle.

Antitrust enforcement has gotten ever more lax. So yeah, things like the edge browser links thing they would never have attempted 10 years ago.

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