Microsoft is siding with Epic Games in the legal battle against Apple's App Store "tax," arguing in a new legal brief that Apple has "stymied" Microsoft's planned launch of an Xbox game store.A year ago,

The Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission is abandoning a Biden-era effort to block Microsoft’s purchase of “Call of Duty” video game maker Activision Blizzard. In an order issued Thursday, the FTC said it had determined that “the public interest is best served by dismissing the administrative litigation in this case.”