[dayglored]

> What do you mean, “They had to”? Did the government or someone make them do so?

Their own customers and OEMs gave them no end of grief, and (as I recall) they relented. The government didn't have a thing to do with it -- marketplace pressures did.

[Still Thinking]

You might want to double check that. I Googled soe articles on it between my inquiry and your reply, and most of them seemed to say Microsoft had reversed that decision before even announcing it.