This headline is misleading and poorly chosen by the original author. Isn't it a convention that headlines that start with an entity followed by a colon, then a

This headline is misleading and poorly chosen by the original author. Isn't it a convention that headlines that start with an entity followed by a colon, then a statement are meant to convey that the entity is making the statement that follows (e.g. "Microsoft: Windows 7 to Cure Cancer")? In this case, the author is making a statement to MS instead of this being an MS statement.