Microsoft Retains The $10 Billion JEDI Contract
The Force is strong with this one? We have some news from the cloud sphere, and this time it has got to do with the JEDI contract that Microsoft …
Tag: Government
No, Microsoft Is Not Leaving China
Great. More politics. Microsoft is currently trying to purchase TikTok, the Internet sensation owned by China based ByteDance. Things have been slowly progressing on this matter, amid conflicting opinions. …
Donald Trump Gives Microsoft 45 Days To Buy TikTok
Time for some good old politics. US President Donald Trump is taking a rather hands-on approach regarding the takeover of TikTok, for which Microsoft is the leading candidate. He …
Will Microsoft Buy TikTok?
Whoa! Stranger things have happened. But Microsoft of all companies has surprisingly slotted in pole position to take over TikTok, the Internet phenomenon that has taken the world by …
Microsoft Teams Scores Big In Taiwan
You’d have to think really hard to name a more popular Microsoft product this year. Azure, Windows and Office are keeping steady, but Microsoft Teams is where it’s at. …
Munich Makes Yet Another Shift From Microsoft To Linux
There and back again! You’d have to think really hard to name a city that has played more flip-flop than Munich when it comes to Microsoft solutions and open …
Microsoft And Oracle Teamed Up To Fend Off Amazon
The enemy of my enemy is my bro? Something similar transpired between three cloud giants lately, with Oracle turning out to be a secret ally of Microsoft in its …
New Zealand Getting Its Own Azure Region
Kiwi power! Microsoft is all set to bring an Azure region to New Zealand, bringing local access to cloud services to the country. That is, if it gets permission …
Amazon Will Fight Pentagon Over JEDI Contract
And thus, begins a new chapter in the cloud wars! Amazon has challenged the recent award of the prestigious $10 billion JEDI contract to Microsoft, citing what it calls …
Microsoft To Support Singapore With 5G Deployment
The future is now! With 5G deployment starting to pick up steam across the globe, companies are also stepping up their game. Singapore, for instance, has enlisted the help …
Amazon May Fight Pentagon Decision To Choose Microsoft
The Empire Strikes Back? Don’t you just love a little politics mixed with your technology? Everyone does, apparently, as Amazon is looking to put up a fight against Pentagon …
Microsoft Wins $10 Billion JEDI Defense Contract
The Last Jedi? After two years of battle with the competition, Microsoft won the lucrative JEDI contract that will see the company provide cloud computing services to the US …
Unisys Unveils CloudForte For Microsoft Azure
It took seven months for Unisys to follow up its cloud migration tool for AWS, but the company is here with CloudForte for Microsoft Azure, the top competitor for …
Microsoft Sounds Alarm Over Facial Recognition
Microsoft president Brad Smith has once again called for new regulation to govern the facial recognition technology in order to avoid bias, discrimination and misuse. He was speaking at …
Microsoft Will Continue To Provide AI Weapons To The US Military
Saying it straight. Microsoft president and chief lawyer Brad Smith has promised that it will not shy away from providing the US military with its best technology. Including AI. …
DoD In For $3.2 Billion In Contracts For Microsoft Products
The DoD Enterprise Software Initiative is in action! The US Department of Defense has announced that it is giving six solution providers a contract for commercial Microsoft licenses and …
Microsoft Under Fire For Enterprise Data Collection
Oh boy, here we go again! Microsoft has come under criticism for collecting and storing personal data about the behavior of individual employees on a large scale, without any …
Kenya Government Considers Dropping Microsoft Azure
More news from Africa. This time not so good. There is talk that Kenya government is considering dropping Microsoft Azure following website suspensions that continue to rage on. Even …
Munich Ditches Linux, Moves Back To Windows
German city Munich has apparently had enough of Linux, as it has decided to move away from the open source operating system after 14 years, and now plans to …
Microsoft Finally Adopts The Open Document Format
Remember all that hoopla between Microsoft and the UK government on adopting the ODF standard for documents last year? Well, it seems like we finally have a resolution of …
US Government Says Windows Is Still The Most Used OS
Microsoft’s prized platform, Windows, has been through much over the past few decades, but the mobile revolution has really turned things upside down for the operating system. However, according …
US Government Still Running Windows XP On 10,000 PCs
Bet you didn’t expect to hear about Windows XP, almost a year after retirement. Microsoft officially pulled the plug off the operating system back in April 2014. And since …
China To Switch 15% Of Government PCs To Linux Every Year
heard, not just Microsoft software, but all products carrying the Microsoft seal, including smartphones and probably even services like Skype and OneDrive. Sure, it’s all limited to government computers …
China Wants To Remove Windows From All Government PCs
reports on this since the start of this year. Long story short, Microsoft’s trouble in China has taken another turn for the worse, as a local IT expert that …
Chinese Authorities Defend Microsoft Investigation
forced to admit guilt and plead without a lawyer in order to defend their rights. On top of that, Microsoft was given mere 20 days to disclose all compatibility …
China’s Investigation On Microsoft Too Late, Analysts Believe
banned Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system on government computers, for no apparent reason. Things escalated fast after that, with regulators raiding a bunch of Microsoft offices in the country. …
Your Email Belongs To You, Not Us, Says Microsoft
post, which follows the ruling earlier this month that ordered the company to hand over customer emails that are stored on a server in Ireland. Redmond says that this …
China Also Developing A Homegrown Smartphone OS
banned on government PCs in China, which is a sure blow to Microsoft. To make matters worse, the company is being investigated for antitrust violations. China clearly wants to …
Microsoft Wants New Privacy Laws In The United States
documented. The company, almost like clockwork, asks for improved privacy and security rules and regulations in the United States. At the same time, Microsoft legally contests any unauthorized requests …
China: We Are Treating Microsoft Just As We Treat Local Companies
information has come out of this investigation until now. However, a statement released to the press by the Ministry of Commerce reveals that a number of foreign companies are …