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Microsoft doesn’t own Spotify. It seems there were rumours they might be acquired by MS around the time of the IPO but nothing came of it.

Assuming you mean the “acquisition” that was rumored around the time of Spotify’s IPO, you may want to check the date of that article: April 1, 2018 https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/04/01/spotify-microsof...

There was some news about Microsoft acquiring Spotify in April 2018, but as far as I can tell that never went through.

There was also a breaking story about Google acquiring Spotify on the exact same date a year later!

Spotify is not a Microsoft asset

i... don’t think microsoft acquired microsoft