Thanks for chiming in. I'm sure that's how legal departments work in most companies, and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Yes, just in this case TFA is talking about an isolated situation where my comment happens to be pertinent.
I have no experience with Microsoft, but my experiences with equivalent legal departments in other big tech. companies matches his view - they play it safe to the point of being insanely anal about it. These guys aren't there to make sure the company can do as much as possible, they're there to make sure there's no way anything can go wrong legally, and given its their asses on the line if they take too big a risk, they'll always stray way away from the edge.
