This is what happens when non-political organizations or companies decide to be politically active. They can try to play both sides of an issue and lose both sides. Why should Microsoft be either promoting or opposing gay marriage -- never mind both at once, incurring all the unpopularity of both positions?
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The trouble right now for Microsoft is that for _so long, so many years_ they have taken a rather progressive, liberal attitude on these things. Now they claim they are trying to back out of it gracefully, but entirely. See our news on this topic in
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the 'firing line' news items. PAT]