your prety naive dude companies and politicians do that type of shit all the time , i didnt even at the petition ,but i dont have to its how they operate they have software for creating fake online identities you know , just because you fell for their scam and a few other people who added their sig among the bots dont mean that everyone on there is a real person or that MS didnt hire people as part of a PR campaign to start the whole thing and use software to make it look it legit
then again maybe i am wrong ,maybe people really are that dumb and masochistic
including MS for not thinking of it though ,not sure abut that one,totally something they must have though of ,they have shareholders that were expecting revenu from their little DRm scheme to make thir share price higher, they are a corporation,
seriously ,they are microsoft, one of the biggest corporations in the world ,their PR budget is probably larger than the GDP of most 3rd world nations , this was a major PR disaster for them and you dont thiiink that they were on the horn to their PR firm when this shit storm was a brewin on twitter etc. you dont think a PR firm hired by microsoft would use those tactics, perception managment software ,viral marketing etc, much smaller companies than MS do it all the time
