I don't think that they do this anymore, but under Balmer this was a key part of their strategy to compete. https://www.aol.com/2009/08/28/microsofts-secret-scr

I don't think that they do this anymore, but under Balmer this was a key part of their strategy to compete. https://www.aol.com/2009/08/28/microsofts-secret-screw-google-meetings-in-d-c/ https://www.aol.com/2009/08/28/microsofts-secret-screw-googl... http://techrights.org/2009/08/30/anti-google-astroturf-lawmedia/ http://techrights.org/2009/08/30/anti-google-astroturf-lawme... I suspect that the campaign was ultimately quite successful at bootstrapping an army of unpaid trolls.