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> This may be an artifact of how teams work together at Microsoft.

It may be an artifact of Microsoft actually being regulated for monopolistic practices.

>>lwansb+(OP)
There's nothing at all in the old DOJ settlement that imposes anything like this.

>>nl+Q6
That isn’t what they’re asserting.

I worked there for more than a decade. The settlement changed behavior - you thought about how to avoid future trust-like behavior.