Can we have some sense of perspective?
In 2012, Microsoft had been alerted to the fact that the blogger, whose identity was kept anonymous in the court papers, had been given some stolen lines of code from the not-yet-released Windows 8 operating system.
The blogger then posted screenshots of the unreleased Windows operating system to his blog.
To figure out the source of the leak, Microsoft began an investigation and, as part of that search, looked into the blogger’s accounts to find out the name of the employee.
Given the TOS you sign when you sign up for a hotmail account, this doesn’t seem that big a deal.
They aren’t data mining every mail you send for advertising like Gmail, they’re pursuing a criminal act…
