If you thought Microsoft's battle with the FTC was over, you're wrong, as the committee has renewed its lawsuit against the company over the firing of 1,900 developers, most of them from Activision, about two weeks ago.

The Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, has been Microsoft's legal adversary ever since it announced its intention to acquire Activision. Even after the deal was successful, the Commission has continued to try to file more lawsuits in an attempt to block the merger process, but so far it has only partially succeeded, if that is true. Expression.

Now the FTC is back and is taking legal action against the company, according to a report Charlie IntelThis is due to the layoff of Activision employees, which totals approximately 1,900 developers, as announced approximately two weeks ago. The committee submitted its letter to the American court, which stated the following:

“Microsoft’s firing of such a large number of developers is in direct contradiction to the terms outlined during the acquisition and submitted to the court early last year.”

The meaning of the letter submitted by the FTC is that Microsoft violated the conditions set for the completion of the acquisition, as it intended to remind the court of this matter and warn it to take strict action against the company.

The condition was to have Activision operate as a single, independent entity after the merger, and since the decision to lay off 1,900 employees did not come from Activision itself, but from Microsoft, this is precisely where the condition is violated. This issue may actually prompt the court to think more deeply this time about the FTC's lawsuit against Microsoft.