Microsoft president softens stance on UK regulator following Activision buyout

While Microsoft president Brad Smith has not completely U-turned on his initial stance regarding the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) original decision to block his company’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, he has now described the regulator as “tough and fair.”

Although the deal has since been finalized, it faced push-back in the U.K. last April, with the CMA citing concerns of Microsoft gaining too much control in the cloud gaming space. At the time, Smith made no effort to hide his frustration with the decision, going so far as to call it “the darkest day in our four decades in Britain” (via GamesIndustry.biz).