Comment by somenameforme

Yeah that would make sense. If they state in their contract that they're free to terminate you in exchange for what they're offering now then that would explain what they're offering now.

What I was responding to is somebody above thinking that Microsoft was being "generous" with this deal - what I was saying is that they were almost certainly just sticking to greediest possible behavior that stays within the bounds of the contract. You can describe billion dollar multinational corps in quite a lot of ways, but generous isn't one of them.