[crackinmalackin]

I know it's not a apples to apples comparison, but the same parent company nonetheless. Not a good look after closing the deal on 69 billion for activision blizzard. Couldn't have set aside one of those billions to keep people employed a while longer MSFT?

[gdulli]

The parent company wants to know the viability of each business unit independently, one subsidizing another would obfuscate what's working and what isn't.

And secondively, teams/orgs get bloated and keeping them larger than they should be hinders their progress.