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Oh, being a fly on the wall today in Redmond. It appears that Microsoft released a stack of its own highly classified documents, as part of its legal war with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the Activision merger.
The unredacted documents were uploaded Friday to the online page of the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California, which is hearing the case, as part of a broader disclosure of redacted information. And this incident is crazy. One of the documents primarily points to Microsoft’s Xbox roadmap, revealing the design and specs of a revamped, disc-less Series X console that will supposedly launch next year, as well as a new controller called the “Sebille. “It looks like it will launch in 2028.
Another document provides a now-obsolete release schedule for several Bethesda games, adding the Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remasters. Meanwhile, an email exchange in some other leaked document shows that Microsoft’s head of games, Phil Spencer, is buying Nintendo and Steam maker Valve.
“The FTC is not guilty of downloading Microsoft’s plans for its games and consoles from the court’s website,” spokesman Douglas Farrar said in a statement this morning. To put it more bluntly, Farrar told NBC News that “Microsoft was guilty of the mistake. “
These aren’t the only revelations emerging from the case this week. A voluntarily published document shows, for example, that Elder Scrolls VI won’t be released until 2026 and won’t be available for Sony’s PlayStation console. The information about Elder Scrolls is extremely intriguing. I don’t play, but when I do, it’s time for Khajiit. ) But the unintentional publication of those other documents, which would have been attached to a downloaded and poorly hidden record, actually provokes lively discussions at Microsoft’s headquarters. The company has not yet commented.
But you know, things happen. An ill-fated big tech company admitted that a worker accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of personal knowledge from his former colleagues, adding Teams messages and full backups of their desktops, by incorrectly setting up a security token on a URL published to a public GitHub repository. The company, and Yes, of course, is Microsoft: it claims that the knowledge of its customers was not threatened by the incident.
Another Microsoft story, because they only live one of those weeks: Panos Panay, the company’s chief product officer, is leaving the company nearly two decades after joining Microsoft as a program manager for the PC hardware group. Head of Consumer Marketing Yusuf Mehdi will update it.
According to Bloomberg, Panay is taking over Amazon’s hardware division, while unit leader David Limp is stepping down. So goodbye Surface and hello Echo, at a time when Amazon’s unit reportedly suffers from low morale due to a lack of success. on the horizon; maybe Panay can fix it.
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David Meyer
This tale originally appeared in Fortune. com
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