Well, prepare for paying $2.50 to have premade skins on PC, no mac/Linux mc, paying money to have over 25 exp, paying money to have unlimited worlds, the possibilities are endless. Also, I'm pretty sure Microsoft is only offering the money, nothing's official yet. Yet.
You underestimate Microsoft, better than SoE buying it, game would be Pay-to-Win. The reason I think this will actually go through is Microsoft and Mojang is close and Notch was going to leave anyway, they'll buy him out and he'll retire on a lot of money.
You have a fair point. I'm just worried that Microsoft will steer minecraft in a direction that doesn't feel like its minecraft, if you get what I mean.
So typical Microsoft stuff? Yeah I get'cha. Soon enough the game will be getting exclusives for Xbox, lol.
I feel like you're targeting Microsoft's marketing campaign, and how you have to pay for Xbox live. ;-;