It's also interesting to see that Microsoft is one of the first to obey (a voluntary "order") - the first company to ever participate in the PRISM program, and

It's also interesting to see that Microsoft is one of the first to obey (a voluntary "order") - the first company to ever participate in the PRISM program, and the one we know most about for its "cooperation" with the NSA from Snowden's documents. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sony-microsoft-and-others-agree-to-share-customer-data-for-national-security http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sony-microsoft-and-others-a... http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/nsa-gets-early-access-to-zero-day-data-from-microsoft-others/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/nsa-gets-early-acces... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-... Whatever the debate about the "old" and the "new" Microsoft, Microsoft has definitely remained the same when it comes to happily giving its user data to the government, even when not obligated by the law to do so. Sometimes they excuse themselves with the argument "that it's the law". Well this time it's not the law, Microsoft. So what's your excuse now?