A wave of worker-led direct actions that shut down parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus this month has crystallized a larger crisis facing Big Tech: employee activism colliding with explosive investigative reporting, allegations that commercial cloud and AI services were used in mass surveillance...
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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
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Hi guys
It looks like anybody buying a computer after 28 June 2009 with VISTA ialready installed on it will be eligible for a FREE Windows 7 upgrade.
What this also shows (if it's true) that W7 will be released earlier rather than later so Q3 2009 is a real possibility.
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