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I wonder if the EC are moving servers too and that's why we have no news, yet :)

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.cfm?proc_code=2_M_10646
The servers problems are because Microsoft pulled out of Europe, didn't they? 😞

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The servers problems are because Microsoft pulled out of Europe, didn't they? 😞

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They are switching all their servers over to Azure, Microsoft's European takeover is almost complete.

It will go down as their most important territorial advance as they prepare to invade the UK from the East.
 
They are switching all their servers over to Azure, Microsoft's European takeover is almost complete.

It will go down as their most important territorial advance as they prepare to invade the UK from the East.
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The Brits will soon learn about the Wrath of Microsoft.
 
Servers are fine, maintenance was last week.
Either they announce something before market closure (3 hours left) or today is not the day.
Hopefully maintenance means something different in the EU since treaties were signed and the maintenance completed. With the exception of places like Plymouth in the UK, that are a law unto themselves - so still work to old British standards - elsewhere in Britain, for the last 25years a maintenance sign goes up telling you what they intended to do, come back eight weeks after the work was supposed to be finished and the job is still ongoing.
 
It's also blocked in the USA? I thought it was just the UK.

How is it blocked in the USA? I know there's something about the FTC suing MS to block or over the deal or something..?
That's how the FTC blocks it. There will be a court case in the USA.

In the UK, however, if the CMA blocks it, it does not go to courts. It goes to CAT, which reviewes procedural problems.

But it has been blocked by regulators in both the UK and USA. Hopefully, EU is the next one to block it.
 
Well US markets are open now, so if any EU decision is going to be announced today it's going to be chaotic to say the least.
 
Wasn't it Reuters or Bloomberg who claimed that there was going to be announcement today from the EU and that it was likely that the EC would approve the deal?

Seems like bullshit to me.
 
"Insiders" reported that EC will announce their decision today, according to their Sources.

If they don't announce it today, why would anyone even believe the other part of that rumor? Which was that EC will approve it.
 
No official announcement anywhere and this is the only person reporting this news? Not saying it isn't true.. or maybe not specifically related? I dunno... kinda weird though.
 


Is this true? And is it even compatible with approving the Activision deal accepting remedies about the cloud market?

Btw it's almost 5pm here in Europe. It doesn't seem that today was the day like Reuters suggested.
 
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