Yeah, I mean you could make the argument that it's just one piece of MS research among thousands of others, etc etc, but the fact that they've sunk resource int

Yeah, I mean you could make the argument that it's just one piece of MS research among thousands of others, etc etc, but the fact that they've sunk resource into literally spying on Google (et al) is just too much. It could still turn out that Bing don't use that technique... but it's looking a lot less likely. Especially given this whole thing started based on Google noticing their spelling corrections popping up on Bing, and stealing Google's spelling corrections is exactly what this paper was about.