The shadiest thing about this is that MS is not revealing the list of patents that it claims infringe and is forcing its licensees to also not reveal that. Th

The shadiest thing about this is that MS is not revealing the list of patents that it claims infringe and is forcing its licensees to also not reveal that. This says to me pretty clearly that were it known, a lot of these patents would probably be challenged and thrown out pretty quickly and MS would get a lot of negative publicity for exploiting them this way. I also strongly suspect that a lot of these initial licensees are getting promised some kind of kickback so that it works out cost-neutral for them to sign - MS has just been building precedents so far. What they do next will be interesting.