The Paragraph below sounds bad, but if you read the whole post, it doesn't seem that what Microsoft did was so bad, and it does look like Microsoft had used the "proper route" to have the articles edited. Read the whole article and make your own mind up though.
"Microsoft has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse today after it offered to pay an Australian blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site."
Source: theage.com.au