Microsoft tests the limits of Britain’s antitrust authority

LONDON: The decision by Britain’s antitrust regulator to rip up its play book for Microsoft shows the limit of its ability to kill mega-deals on its own, even if some agreed with its opposition to the U.S company’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is increasingly isolated over the Xbox maker’s bid to buy the company behind “Call of Duty” after U.S. regulator, the FTC, failed to block it in court last week.