Tag: Government
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …