[eel]

No?

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_sues_salesfor...

It's not even typical Microsoft behavior. From the article above:

Although the frequent target of such suits, the Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft itself has only filed patent infringement suits four times in its history.

That makes me think that Microsoft is taking cloud computing very seriously, as Ballmer alludes to, and I would include going out of their way to seek injunctions against one of the largest players in cloud computing.

[bad_user]

They may have filled patent infringement suits only four times until now ... but they've threatened companies far more than that.

They aren't stupid ... patent infringement suits can get their patents overthrown. You can win much more by spreading FUD.