It’s been a hot minute since anyone mentioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft in the same sentence. The last we heard about them, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley had denied the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction, which had seemingly freed up Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard. That merger hasn’t officially been completed yet, and the FTC is still trying to submit its arguments against it. Last Friday, Microsoft uploaded hundreds of internal documents to a website hosted by the U.S. District Court in order to help plead their case for the acquisition. It’s a typically standard procedure that soon became anything but typical when it was revealed that the documents were accidentally made available for all to see.
