Microsoft launched a review on August 15, shortly after the Guardian article was published. According to Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith, the review is based on two principles that the company applies worldwide. Firstly, not supplying technology for the mass surveillance of citizens. And secondly, protecting the privacy rights of customers. He emphasized that Microsoft is not a country or a government, but a company that independently determines which products and services it offers.
There's a revolution occurring in how war and conflict are waged. New data-intensive systems are being developed; and commercial tech infrastructure is now supporting military operations. Data plays a key role in this revolution. Data is used to train and test systems, and the systems are fed data to target operations, communities, and individuals. While intelligence has long informed warfare, now we're seeing the very same dynamics that gave rise to surveillance capitalism feed a new era of innovation, feed a new era of innovation,
"It was a lot easier, in some ways, for journalists back in the 80s and 90s, before all of these cloud platforms existed," said Melody Kramer, a product manager at ProPublica who works on engagement and crowdsourcing tools. "You would put things in a Microsoft Word document, share that within your [physical] newsroom, and nothing would live in a data center or different space." The most sensitive stories could be written on computers without network connections and discussed and edited only in the office.
The use of Chinese nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments it's over, Hegseth said in a video statement. We've issued a formal letter of concern to Microsoft documenting this breach of trust, and we're requiring a third-party audit of Microsoft's digital escort programme, including the code and the submissions by Chinese nationals. Did they put anything in the code that we didn't know about? We are going to find out, Hegseth added.
Lumen Technologies has made major enhancements to datacentre and cloud connectivity across its US network, with a strategic expansion capable of turbocharging metro markets with high-speed datacentre connectivity.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) face "targeted and bespoke" interventions to curb harmful competitive behaviours in the UK cloud market.
"[N]early 80 percent of B2B customers affirm that telcos have a 'right-to-play' beyond traditional connectivity. Yet, many operators are falling short of capitalizing on this expanded mandate."
Despite the confirmed problems with Microsoft Forms, Microsoft's official 365 Service Health Status website continues to display "everything up and running." This discrepancy is expected to be addressed as the situation evolves.
The Microsoft outage that disrupted Teams, Exchange Online, and related services was ultimately caused by an overly aggressive traffic management update that unintentionally rerouted and choked legitimate service traffic.
Because of the uncertainty with the cloud and skyrocketing costs, we stopped. We decided we're going to do this very slowly, meaning we're going to wait to see what will happen, and right now, we decided to have it on-premise.
