Microsoft admits unconstitutional FTC lawsuit claim was a mistake

Microsoft has backtracked on some of the wording in its recent response to the United States government's Federal Trade Commission (hereon referred to as the FTC).

In December, Microsoft claimed the FTC's lawsuit against its Activision Blizzard buyout was unconstitutional, and specifically violated the Fifth Amendment.

However, the company has now gone back on this argument, admitting it "should have dropped these defences before we filed".

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