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Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you seem to be confusing Microsoft with "the government". I think you meant:

> If you're government, the possibility of the government spying on your data isn't shockingly worrisome.

which makes little sense to me. If you're government, you should be quite concerned about the possibility of Microsoft spying on your data.

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Depends what branch of government, I suppose. For the NSA, sure. For anyone who works where most data is public or FOIA-able... I guess your biggest concern would be if Microsoft's spying managed to compromise the security of the network itself, which one would hope Microsoft is supremely motivated to not do, because they want you to use their products.

Nor am I confusing Microsoft with the government, but merely recognizing that in a backdoor model, the most interested party is probably the government.

> you seem to be confusing Microsoft with "the government"

Actually, thanks to the third party doctrine and the regularity with which the government subpoenas tech companies, there is little functional difference - they are part of the spying apparatus.

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