I can see how "but maybe that's just me" (and the entirety of the first paragraph) could be read as snarky, but that's not how I meant it. It was a non-rhetorical question: what should a company like Microsoft do when faced with a court order? Does compliance with such orders make "privacy" campaigns nonsensical, if they still have meaningful privacy protections compared to competitors? Also, IANAL, but as far as I know Microsoft can't violate the 4th amendment, only the government can.
No-one can violate the 4th amendment. The government is only seen to be violating it because they've chosen to interpret it under a different meaning that somehow allows them to collect private user data en-masse.
