Now, Microsoft Services are restored and the company has issued an official statement. Basically, work was stuck to a large extent. This simply meant, neither are users able to get new emails nor are they able to send emails. In fact, the Outlook web version as well as the mobile app were not refreshing.
Many News organizations including the True Scoop Tech Team started facing issues. As per reports, Microsoft services including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and many more services crashed. Either way, get a sense of proportion.Microsoft services came to standstill after its services went down in India and other countries. Go to appeal, or take the decision on the chin. The remark merely advertises Big Tech’s sense of entitlement. It is surely a reasonable pro-competition and pro-innovation view of the world to believe, first, that the market should be left to develop freely if cloud-based delivery is the coming force and, second, that Microsoft is big enough already if it has an estimated 60%-70% of cloud gaming services.įor Smith and Microsoft, it is apparently “the darkest day in our four decades in Britain”. So, if the CMA had said yes, the regulator would be permanently diving into a cloud market that is still in its infancy. The proposal was never going to be a slam-dunk, which is why the FTC and the European Commission are also all over it.Īll contractual remedies – especially time-limited ones as offered by Microsoft – must be policed. In essence, the takeover would wed a big content company (Activision) to a big next-generation platform provider (Microsoft). On the substance of Smith’s grumble – that Microsoft’s remedies for the cloud part of the gaming market were sufficient – opinion obviously differs, but the CMA hasn’t lost its marbles. Activision generates about £700m of its global £6bn turnover in the UK, so 10 times the CMA’s £70m cutoff. One US company was trying to buy another US company, but the relevant measure is the size of UK revenue. Those who regard Activision hits Call of Duty, Candy Crush and so on as recreational fluff may view the stakes here as low, but nobody should doubt the CMA’s right to inspect the Microsoft deal. Deals sometimes get stopped by Brussels too.
Tough.Īnd, whatever Smith thinks, the EU is not some regulatory paradise for big companies in which every big deal goes through on the nod. Microsoft tried the remedy route with Activision but the CMA, unusually, wasn’t convinced. Indeed, the more common complaint is that the regulator is too willing to accept an acquirer’s proposed remedies to competition concerns. The record shows that the number of deals blocked by the CMA – across all sectors – is tiny in most years. Smith hardly helped his case when he tried to paint the UK as a place where it’s hard for a successful tech founder to sell a business. Microsoft can yank investment from the UK if it wishes, but another part of the global tech industry may be encouraged by the rare sight of a regulator being willing to step into the path of US Big Tech’s steamroller. That is why, one trusts, Rishi Sunak will ignore Smith’s invitation to “look hard at the role of the CMA and regulatory structure in the UK” if he wants the tech industry to flourish here. Ultimately, though, the process can end up in court in both countries. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has to sue to block a deal (which, note, it is now doing in the Activision case).
MICROSOFT TEAMS OUTAGE PATCH
This setup is different from the one that operates in Smith’s and Microsoft’s home patch of the US, but not wildly so.
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