I didn’t believe this if true. Microsoft is known for trotting out garbage that nobody wants. Sometimes they back off. Sometimes they best is down until we fall in line.

I suspect an assortment of realities that include individual partnerships on the boards, bribes, kickbacks, and more blitz style manipulation to “ensure” LG that people want this, and of course threre is also the realization that they will make bank before people realize they’re getting bamboozled.