Microsoft and the UK Both Need to Admit Mistakes

Microsoft and the UK Both Need to Admit Mistakes

The long-awaited green light from the UK competition watchdog for Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion takeover of games publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. should prompt some self-criticism all round. The UK reached a good outcome but in a needlessly drawn-out and volatile manner. Microsoft’s inappropriate public berating of the UK was reputationally damaging for the software giant … Read more