San Francisco | Microsoft’s stunning courtroom victory over US regulators trying to block its acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard has just revived the prospects of a $US75 billion ($103 billion) deal that many on Wall Street had thought, only weeks ago, was on its last legs.
The ruling on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) marked a dramatic about-turn in the software company’s first clash with US antitrust authorities since they sought to break the company up at the end of the 1990s.
