Quite the paradoxical quandary
I honestly don't know whom to side with, I mean both entities are excessively unscrupulous and will use whatever tactics, legal or no, to exact what they feel is equitable for them. On one hand, we have a bottom feeding, repulsive, myopic, money grubbing organization that's perfectly content to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and then we have the IRS.
Each one inspires such incredible nausea, for their own special ways, that I really don't know who I should be rooting for or against.
However, I do admire Microsoft's legal department for having the stones to make a stink with the only agency more fearsome than the NSA. MS's legal staff, whether they are affiliated with this case or not, are going to be audited quarterly for centuries after they are dead.
Which is worse, a flesh eating virus or sucking chest wounds in both lungs?