A strong brand costs so much to build, is such a valuable asset, I can't think of any commercial motive that would come close to making up for trashing the brands of the company and product like this.
So I'm going to conjecture a non-commercial motive: maybe the US government has asked Microsoft to do this to assist with surveillance. No proof, of course, but it's the only scenario I can think of in which this would make sense. The truth will probably come out someday; I'll be interested in seeing whether I was right.
So I'm going to conjecture a non-commercial motive: maybe the US government has asked Microsoft to do this to assist with surveillance. No proof, of course, but it's the only scenario I can think of in which this would make sense. The truth will probably come out someday; I'll be interested in seeing whether I was right.