One of the biggest advantages of Google's pure hosted play was that the backend is immune to piracy. Once MSFT opens this door, it can't be shut. MSFT has alw

One of the biggest advantages of Google's pure hosted play was that the backend is immune to piracy. Once MSFT opens this door, it can't be shut. MSFT has always had a love/hate relationship with piracy, fully knowing that they can use it to gain market share and struggle to monetize it later. To me, this move indicates they're willing to accept a little piracy in order to entrench the market.