Maybe you weren’t born when this happened, so it’s understandable that you don’t know
The magazine Business & Economic Research argued that, contrary to Friedman’s concerns, the settlement actually had little effect on Microsoft’s behavior. The fines, restrictions, and monitoring imposed were not enough to prevent it from “abusing its monopolistic power and too little to prevent it from dominating the software and operating system industry.” For that reason, Microsoft remained dominant and monopolistic after the trial, and it continued to stifle competitors and innovative technology.
Regulators don’t exist just to “slow companies down”. They’re there to ensure fairness in the market, and this deal doesn’t make the cloud market unfair in any way. If you think it does, explain how please?
“Their job” being……what exactly here? Hamstringing one of the only companies that’s actually investing in cloud gaming?
Their job is to manage markets and to reduce monopolies.
One of the only companies? Netflix literally just announced a cloud gaming service. Sony has one, Nvidia has one, Amazon Luna, Shadow
But sure just let Microsoft have another monopoly…
It wouldn’t let Microsoft have a monopoly though. How would it?
Er, the same way they have with several other products?
What other products do Microsoft have a monopoly on exactly?
Maybe you weren’t born when this happened, so it’s understandable that you don’t know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
If a market regulator is slowing these cunts down, they’re doing their job.
That was over 20 years ago….
What do Microsoft have a monopoly on in 2023?
Regulators don’t exist just to “slow companies down”. They’re there to ensure fairness in the market, and this deal doesn’t make the cloud market unfair in any way. If you think it does, explain how please?
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
75% of the desktop market…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-share-of-windows-7/
You think ms would act differently if they could?
The EU greenlit this, the US tried to block it and lost, the CMA made them sell it to Ubi so that they are not in total control if the price
It’s not that complicated, Activision games won’t be exclusively sold by ms
That’s not a monopoly.
I know what the CMA did. I’m not saying it’s complicated? I’m saying that they’re overstepping their bounds here.