Agreed - I dislike MS as much as the next HN reader does, but you're bang on here. Every company makes mistakes and, at face value, this looks like a good meas

Agreed - I dislike MS as much as the next HN reader does, but you're bang on here. Every company makes mistakes and, at face value, this looks like a good measure to avoid the same mistake in the future. Credit where its due and all that...