After two decades, Microsoft is once again under the FTC's antitrust spotlight

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After two decades, Microsoft is once again under the FTC's antitrust spotlight
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OPINION: “Federal antitrust regulators are stepping up to the plate, where Congress has failed. And Microsoft is no longer going to be seen as the recovered monopolist turned white knight,” tpoletti writes.

After nearly two decades of seemingly good behavior following a drawn-out battle with the U.S. Justice Department in the late 1990s, Microsoft Corp. is under federal scrutiny once again.

On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint to block Microsoft’s MSFT proposed $69 billion deal to buy videogame maker Activision Blizzard Inc. ATVI, in what would be the biggest acquisition ever for both the software giant and the videogame industry. The complaint was still not yet publicly available late Thursday afternoon....

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