Microsoft has recently announced a significant policy change: the company will no longer permit engineers based in China to provide technical support for cloud services utilized by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). This decision follows investigative reports that raised concerns about...
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In the world of global technology, nothing happens in isolation, and few decisions ripple as widely as those affecting the intersection of national security and enterprise cloud computing. This reality was underscored recently when Microsoft—one of the world’s foremost tech giants—announced that...
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