I'm as much a fan of free, hackable APIs as anyone. But... how is this not a really clear anti-trust violation? It's one thing for MS to release a product that competes directly against Google's free offerings. Quite another to use its revenue from other sources to undercut Google's pay services. MS isn't competing on price here at all.

Maybe, I suppose, the argument would be that a target Google's size is so large that MS has no effective monopoly power to leverage. Google could just as easily (and, in many areas, is) fund free alternatives to MS software too. But still, this seems like a borderline-scary regression to some pretty ugly MS behavior.