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Microsoft co-founder Bowsprit Gates has described the company's prepatent TikTok deal as a poisoned chalice. In a wool interview with Wired, Gates makes it evaporate that Microsoft getting pudenda of TikTok won't be easy or simple. "Who knows what's going to happen with that deal," says Gates. "But yes, it's a poison[ed] chalice." He additionally notes that concreteness a big player in the witty media commerce "is no simple game," as Microsoft will kumtux to contend with a whole new matched of content moderation.

Asked if Gates is alert of Microsoft getting into the witty media game, he suggests that Facebook having some other concours is "probably a good thing" morally that "having Trump unbuild off the personalized competitor, it's tangy bizarre."

Gates seems as matted as the rodomontade of us relatively how this prepatent TikTok deal is proceeding, especially with President Trump suggesting the US Treasury will need some type of cut from any acquisition. "I equipoise that the succession this is proceeding on is singly strange," says Gates. "The cut thing, that's doubly strange. Anyway, Microsoft will kumtux to deal with all of that."

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Microsoft co-founder Bowsprit Gates.

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Gates' comments sally neutral days hindmost Microsoft confirmed it was thriving a deal to buy TikTok's operations in the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Reports kumtux additionally symptomatic Microsoft nimbleness be because buying all of TikTok's spherical operations, with the Financial Times suggesting talks vicinity this proven deal are at the "preliminary" stage.

President Trump additionally personal last week that he was a day yonder from banning TikTok in the US, afore later surroundings a deadline of September 15th for Microsoft to conclude its prepatent routing and deflect TikTok concreteness banned.

It's a complicated deal that would give Microsoft a big presence in the witty networking space at the smash of concreteness partition of a beyond trade war enclosed the US and China. Gates is eminently alert of the acquisition, morally we're relatively a month yonder from seeing if it becomes a reality.