{"id":28395,"date":"2023-04-28T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/uk-government-microsoft-president-wrong-on-activision-block-being-bad-for-britain\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:55:51","slug":"uk-government-microsoft-president-wrong-on-activision-block-being-bad-for-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/uk-government-microsoft-president-wrong-on-activision-block-being-bad-for-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government: Microsoft president wrong on Activision block being &#8220;bad for Britain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nThe UK government has called out Microsoft&#8217;s president Brad Smith for his comments on the now-blocked Activision Blizzard acquisition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEarlier this week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/uk-blocks-microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal\">UK stopped Microsoft&#8217;s $68.7bn effort to buy Activision<\/a> in its tracks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-hits-out-at-cma-darkest-day-in-its-four-decades-of-working-in-the-uk\">prompting a furious response from Smith<\/a>, who branded the move as &#8220;bad for Britain&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Those sorts of claims are not borne out by the facts,&#8221; a spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said last night (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/activision-ma-microsoft-britain-spokesma\/microsoft-wrong-to-say-activision-deal-block-is-bad-for-britain-pms-spokesman-idUKS8N2XG0AH\">Reuters<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/uk-government-microsoft-president-wrong-on-activision-block-being-bad-for-britain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has called out Microsoft&#8217;s president Brad Smith for his comments on the now-blocked Activision Blizzard acquisition. Earlier this week, the UK stopped Microsoft&#8217;s $68.7bn effort to buy Activision in its tracks, prompting a furious response from Smith, who branded the move as &#8220;bad for Britain&#8221;. &#8220;Those sorts of claims are not borne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1883,3737,1252],"class_list":["post-28395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-pc","tag-called","tag-government","tag-the"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK government: Microsoft president wrong on Activision block being &quot;bad for Britain&quot; | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View UK government: Microsoft president wrong on Activision block being &quot;bad for Britain&quot; for free, here on XtremeServers. 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