"It provides legal certainty now as to what you can and you can't do in relation to information you have to make available to companies who compete in your environment to enable them to be a viable competitor," he added.
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Now, I know I'm going to get a scolding for this, but why should MS have to give it's competitors information about it's product so that they can better compete?
If MS puts the money and the manpower into developing something, then why should somebody that didn't reap any benefits from it?