Microsoft’s report on compliance with law enforcement requests for data demonstrates a status quo for the software giant from the last reporting period. While the number of requests from law enforcement dropped worldwide in the first six months of 2013, Microsoft complied with 79 percent of requests resulting from court orders, subpoenas and warrants. Only 2.2 percent of those requests resulted in the customer content from services such as Outlook, Hotmail, Xbox Live, or SkyDrive being turned over to the authorities; no Skype requests for user content were made.
