Microsoft Azure IP Advantage: A closer look at the ‘patent pick’

Things to make you go "WTF".

The part about handling lawsuits for their customers is a strong enough statement against (software) patents -- that getting sued is pretty much inevitable -- but it sounds like they'll let you use their patents to counter-sue. Which is even more fucked up, since the underlying assumption has to be that it isn't possible to exist without violating at least one of them.