The Moment of Truth Has Come for Microsoft, Which Wants to Be Seen As the “Mister Nice Guy” of Tech.

Big issues will test Microsoft's influence strategy in the coming months.

Nothing matches the zeal of a convert. When it comes to antitrust and regulation of large high-tech companies, Microsoft is no longer the pariah condemned in 2004 by the European Union for imposing its software on the then dominant Windows operating system. Nor does the Redmond-based company want to appear as the one that the American justice threatened…