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FTC Chair Lina Khan fires a parting shot at Microsoft: The United States Federal Trade Commission has opened “broad” antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s entire business

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FTC Chair Lina Khan fires a parting shot at Microsoft: The United States Federal Trade Commission has opened “broad” antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s entire business

FTC Chair Lina Khan really doesn’t like Microsoft.

Lina Khan was instrumental in attempts to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard in yesteryear, spending millions of dollars on hearings in attempts to scupper Xbox’s deal to acquire the Call of Duty maker. All of Khan’s arguments against the deal have fallen apart post-merger, with Microsoft’s promises to keep Call of Duty multiplatform with parity on other platforms obviously being true. Microsoft also placed Call of Duty and other Activision titles into Xbox Game Pass as promised, lowering costs to consumers by a huge amount. And everybody lived happily ever after, right? Well, not quite.

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