Microsoft has rallied a long list of tech and media companies to its cause — Apple and Cisco filed an amicus brief, as did Verizon, HP, Salesforce, and eBay, as well as Amazon and Accenture, AT&T and Rackspace, and the Irish government. In one especially odd set of bedfellows, ABC, CNN, NPR, Fox News, the Guardian, and 25 other media groups filed in support of Microsoft.