It's a very confusing article, I must say. On the one hand it seems to imply Microsoft is defying the law on behalf of its customers. If that is the case MS is

It's a very confusing article, I must say. On the one hand it seems to imply Microsoft is defying the law on behalf of its customers. If that is the case MS is in contempt of court and presumably the board of directors and other executives could face criminal sanctions. However there's certainly no mention of that and in other parts of the article it sounds like this is just one more round in an ongoing legal case ... > The removal of the suspension legally requires Microsoft to hand over the email immediately vs > The judge has now ordered both Microsoft and federal prosecutors to advise her how to proceed by next Friday, September 5 Paul Thurrott is of course a relentlessly pro-Microsoft writer, and I can't help but get the feeling he's trying to take advantage of strategic ambiguity to put out a positive story here. I will stay tuned to see if indeed there is some kind of punishment meted out to Miscrosoft - otherwise my assumption would be that this is much less of a story than it sounds.