> Microsoft is legally entitled to refuse a request from law enforcement, and subject to criminal penalties if it refuses a valid legal order.
This is a problem, because Microsoft operates in a lot of jurisdictions, but one of them always wants to be the exception and claims that it has jurisdiction over all the others. Not that I personally am of the opinion, that it is wise for the other jurisdiction to trust Microsoft, but if MS wants to secure operating in the other jurisdiction it needs to separate itself from that outsider.
Actually I think that corporate sovereignty is inevitable, hence countries should have never allowed companies to get that large. But for this discussion, yes Microsoft just needs to split and/or go to the Cayman Islands.
I don't think corporate sovereignty is needed for that; just blowing up Microsoft into a bunch of independently-operating entities, one per relevant jurisdiction.
This is a problem, because Microsoft operates in a lot of jurisdictions, but one of them always wants to be the exception and claims that it has jurisdiction over all the others. Not that I personally am of the opinion, that it is wise for the other jurisdiction to trust Microsoft, but if MS wants to secure operating in the other jurisdiction it needs to separate itself from that outsider.