There were at least these cases which seem trollish:
MS vs. TomTom
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/chewing-the-fat-in-the-m...
MS vs. Salesforce
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2341-microsoft-patent-trolls-...
MS vs. TomTom
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/chewing-the-fat-in-the-m...
MS vs. Salesforce
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2341-microsoft-patent-trolls-...
But I digress... Currently Microsoft isn't doing anything evil. Making software patents harder to get is clearly a step in the right direction.
But it's far from Microsoft saving us all from software patents.
Heh, heh: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...
No longer true.