alt Hacker NewsI thought it was an offer to buy Xbox for $500M - that's what its worth under Microsoft's current generation of leadership.
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returnInfinity • today at 5:12 AM
you know they paid some 70 billion for activision blizzard?
I thought it was an offer to buy Xbox for $500M - that's what its worth under Microsoft's current generation of leadership.
you know they paid some 70 billion for activision blizzard?
I know the theories about Microsoft selling Xbox or spinning it off are common on the internet these days. They might even make sense from a high level business prospective. However, I don’t understand how they could do it from a technical standpoint without still having huge leverage on the company buying it. Xbox runs a customized version of NT, DirectX and HyperV as far as I know. Any company buying it would have to get some licensing deal from Microsoft to further develop and maintain NT and HyperV or rely on Microsoft doing the development which both seem unrealistic for any company to wanna pick up, or for Microsoft to give away. I know they don’t really care about Windows these days, but still.
I’m sure if they are forced to (legally or otherwise) they can find a solution, but it would be a thorny thing to split.