Instead of there being one big cloud or datacenter being hosted by Microsoft, there will be multiple smaller clouds hosting these services such as ISPs and other providers right out of the box.

We're saying partners will have the flexibility to decide what they ask [users] for.

We investigated this report,

If someone comes up with a super-hot idea, we'll have a bunch of researchers and developers who can take those ideas, get them prototyped and see if there's a real, healthy business there.

We're disappointed. As soon as they went public with the tool that exploits the issue, they put millions of IIS servers in jeopardy. We would rather to have had this fixed before they disclosed this problem to the world.

Once you sell it, it's sold. Anything that would let the previous owner come back and make demands is not something we'd agree to.