It&#x27;s kind of a red herring to connect these two. The case here involves the government seizing data from a foreign data center. Were Microsoft to lose, this says to foreign customers that any time the US government wants some information stored overseas, they will get it. Obviously not good for business.<p>Here in the states, Microsoft is going to collect everything it can about its customers and store it (and from there I imagine it eventually goes on in some form to the NSA).