What we learned from Microsoft’s big Xbox leak
techcrunch.comAs Microsoft marches toward a new deadline for its planned acquisition of Activision, the company stumbled into an unexpected setback of its own making.
This week, a trove of documents surfaced through Microsoft’s battle with the FTC surfaced corporate insights and trade secrets about its Xbox business that the company obviously intended to keep under wraps.
The files were part of a deposition added to an online portal hosted by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and have since been pulled offline. While the documents were originally uploaded on September 14, a user on gaming forum ResetEra pointed out that un-redacted emails, reports and presentations were attached to downloadable PDFs in the batch of uploads. The files, which Microsoft itself apparently accidentally leaked, were pulled offline earlier this week.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>The judge just posted this order related to the accidental publication of Microsoft documents. pic.twitter.com/1nShLKrYbD— Douglas Farrar (@DouglasLFarrar) September 19, 2023
The leak offered an unexpected snapshot of Microsoft’s Xbox plans, including the timeline for a new iteration of the Xbox Series X. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer tried to spin the leaks on X, formerly Twitter, characterizing the leaked information as stale. But there’s still plenty to be gleaned in spite of Spencer’s comments.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>We've seen the conversation around old emails and documents. It is hard to see our team's work shared in this way because so much has changed and there's so much to be excited about right now, and in the future. We will share the real plans when we are ready.— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) September 19, 2023
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