[throwaway7767]

> Microsoft was publicly beaten up a bit, and then changed their policy to say they will no longer do that.

What? No.

They saw the PR pouncing they were taking, so they hired a former judge to rubber stamp such things in the future, and had the gall to call it a "judicial process" (even though the guy is just a microsoft employee at this point).

[deong]

This (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/microsoft-will-no...) is what I was referring to. Whether Ars Technica is wrong about it, I can't say.