Especially in the case of Microsoft, it's more complicated than that. Microsoft is subject to multiple jurisdictions, being a multi-national. US courts are ord

Especially in the case of Microsoft, it's more complicated than that. Microsoft is subject to multiple jurisdictions, being a multi-national. US courts are ordering the part of Microsoft that's under its jurisdiction to do something in another jurisdiction that Microsoft feels is against the law there. It's not that Microsoft feels itself above the law, it is in the position of trying to satisfy mutually incompatible laws, because the US and EU both claim jurisdiction in this matter.