Brad Smith is definitely part of the old guard. Joined in 1993.

His remarks the other day are going to age terribly. He's basically everything Ballmer was but as a lawyer.

But, we should expect more of this if mega corporations are allowed to continue growing their market caps beyond the GDP of G7 nation states.

>if mega corporations are allowed to continue growing their market caps beyond the GDP of G7 nation states.

...which is a pointless comparison because the two things being compared are different units entirely. The former is basically the lifetime value with discounting applied, whereas the latter is income from a single year.

I don't know how anyone fell (or continues to fall) from companies acting like the good guys when things are hard for them, because as soon as they can, they'll abuse their position. And this is not specific to Microsoft, it's every public company driven by shareholders. Why would anyone expect anything differently here?

If this trend is that predictable someone should get their phd studying it, write a book, and get hired by banking lobbyists to stfu.

I think anyone would be grumpy if they didn't get what they wanted and they will have to pay a 3 billion Dollars penalty to Activison when the Deal falls Apart

> I think anyone would be grumpy if they didn't get what they wanted

Only if you are a child. One thing is that Microsoft leadership does not like the situation the other one is to insult the UK and lash out. That is a sign of entitlement and a very destructive way of looking at the rule of law.

Activision was the one who said the UK is "closed for business". All microsoft said is that they plan to appeal the decision because they believe it was based on a flawed understanding of the cloud gaming market[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1651182266406584320