What in the world makes you think Microsoft lets anyone put backdoors into their software?
It has been that way from 1995 days(I had family members working in MS at that time).It's normal, they are a US company after all.
I'm too lazy for citation, just search by yourself, here you can look at the "there are good contributions from NSA" probe: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01...
You know, we "can be all terrorist" mentality, like the printers mark, they need some way of accessing any computer just in case.