# Commission clears Microsoft/Activision with licensing remedies

Date: 2023

In May 2023 the Commission cleared Microsoft’s Activision deal with cloud-licensing remedies, unlike a then-still-hostile US FTC path. Clearance with remedies is a completed merger act, criticised both as too soft and as too slow.

## People

- Margrethe Vestager: https://factrail.ai/people/margrethe-vestager

## Drivers

- Antitrust Pressure in Digital Markets: https://factrail.ai/drivers/antitrust-pressure-in-digital-markets

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-antitrust-regulators-clear-microsofts-69-bln-activision-deal-2023-05-15/
- https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2705

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eu-microsoft-activision-eu-2023