Microsoft now says the CMA was ‘tough and fair’ over Activision Blizzard deal
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#6HHHD)
Image: Getty Images Microsoft president Brad Smith wasn't happy with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last year after the regulator blocked Microsoft's giant Activision Blizzard deal. Now that Microsoft has restructured its deal and won approval in the UK, Smith has kinder words for the CMA, describing the regulator as tough and fair" in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today program.
Smith originally criticized the CMA and said confidence in the UK had been severely shaken" after the regulator moved to block Microsoft's $68.7 billion deal in April last year. He called it the darkest day" for Microsoft in its four decades of working in Britain and went a step further, saying the European Union is a more attractive place to start a...