&gt; How should Microsoft go about asking a court to search their own servers?<p>The people pressing charges do not apply for court orders. The police does so in cases where they believe it is needed for an active investigation. Microsoft should then have a policy of not disclosing information to law enforcement unless provided with a court order.<p>The fact that microsoft ended up stating that they would do exactly this in the future should indicate that this is not the problem you are making it out to be.<p>&gt; Also, you implied you were fine with the new policy and that it was a significant change; claiming your point was the opposite at this point means you were very unclear. How should I have figured out what you meant from your words above?<p>By reading the post with a mind to reading the likely meaning, rather than focusing on finding unlikely meanings. As if you were a human communicating with another human, rather than a tokenizer reading source code. If you did that, you would see that my point has been consistent the entire time.<p>If you read the totality of the post, the point is quite clear, and I&#x27;ve restated it a few times now.<p>I assume this is clear now? Because if not, I&#x27;m starting to suspect a troll and am not interested in furthering this conversation.