Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Addresses Microsoft Mega-Leak; Here’s What Spencer Told Employees
Xbox head Phil Spencer has addressed the Microsoft mega-leak through both a memo to employees and publically on Twitter.
As most of you will know by now - a lot of internal Microsoft/FTC documents were leaked over the weekend and yesterday after internal files were attached to a single publically published document and not correctly hidden afterward. Following the leak, the FTC issued a statement that it wasn't responsible for the leak, and the Judge overseeing the case also clarified that it was Microsoft who provided the link for the files. Information that was leaked includes details on an Xbox Series X revision as well as Microsoft's next-gen console alongside remasters of Fallout 3 and Oblivion.
In a memo emailed to employees (as obtained by The Verge) at Microsoft, Phil Spencer has now addressed the massive leak, saying that although this is utterly disappointing, many documents are more than a year old, and the company's plans have evolved since then. As expected, Spencer also said that the leak shouldn't have happened in the first place. A similar, somewhat shorter, message has also been posted on Twitter by Spencer. "We've seen the conversation around old emails and documents", Spencer writes. "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."
We've included some of the text of Phil's memo to employees, as obtained by The Verge, below:
"Today, several documents submitted in the court proceedings related to our proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard were unintentionally disclosed", Spencer wrote in his memo. "I know this is disappointing, even if many of the documents are well over a year old and our plans have evolved."
Spencer added, "I also know we all take the confidentiality of our plans and our partners’ information very seriously. This leak obviously is not us living up to that expectation. We will learn from what happened and be better going forward. We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community. That said, there’s so much more to be excited about, and when we’re ready, we’ll share the real plans with our players."
We're pretty sure that more will be shared on this matter in the days to come, and it will be interesting to learn what exactly went wrong when Microsoft provided the link to the document with attached unredacted files.
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