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Microsoft's CLOUD Act Confession: Your EU Data Isn't Truly Safe from U.S. Prying Eyes
Microsoft's France officials told a Senate committee that they "cannot guarantee" French citizens’ data would never be transferred to U.S. authorities without French agreement. The June 2025...
Microsoft’s Brad Smith Vows Investigation After Employees Storm Office Over Azure Israel Surveillance Claims
Microsoft President Brad Smith told reporters on August 26, 2025, that the company would “go investigate and get to the truth” after a group of current and former employees occupied his Redmond...
Brad Smith Pledges Independent Investigation After Azure Surveillance Allegations Surface
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, has personally pledged to launch an externally supervised investigation into how the company’s Azure cloud services may have been used by Israeli military...
Atturra’s Full Microsoft Partner Designations Fuel Private Cloud Ambitions — But ‘First’ Label Questioned
Atturra, an Australian IT services provider, has secured the full suite of Microsoft Solutions Partner designations and expanded its sovereign private cloud capacity in NEXTDC data centers. But one...
Atturra’s Claimed Microsoft Private Cloud First: What Australian Buyers Need to Verify
Atturra, the ASX-listed IT services provider, has locked in a rare milestone: all six Microsoft Solution Designations—Business Applications, Data & AI (Azure), Digital & App Innovation...
New 'Woke AI' Ban Shakes Up Pentagon Cloud Race for AWS, Microsoft, Google
The U.S. Department of Defense has embarked on an aggressive pivot to artificial intelligence, embedding it as a strategic backbone for missions ranging from logistics to battlefield decision-making....
Atturra’s Microsoft Credentials Grow: Six Solution Partner Badges and a Private Cloud Claim to Prove
Atturra has locked in all six Microsoft Solutions Partner designations, but its reported status as Australia’s first Private Cloud Solution Partner remains a single-source claim awaiting official...
Protests and Arrests at Microsoft HQ as Azure Surveillance Claims Prompt External Audit
Redmond, Washington — Microsoft’s campus became the scene of a dramatic confrontation this week as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed red paint on the company’s iconic...
Westcon-Comstor, Microsoft Launch Summit to Convert African Partners into AI and Cloud Solution Builders
An exclusive invite-only partner summit launching August 28 in Johannesburg aims to systematically retool African channel companies for the Microsoft cloud era. Westcon-Comstor, Microsoft’s primary...
Azure Local Emerges as Microsoft’s Answer to VMware Exodus and Edge Computing Needs
Microsoft officially rebranded Azure Stack HCI to Azure Local on November 19, 2024, but this is far more than a name change. Azure Local is a direct response to two converging market realities: a...
18 Arrests at Microsoft HQ as Staff Revolt Over Israeli Defense Cloud Deals Forces Urgent Review
Two consecutive days of protests at Microsoft’s Redmond campus ended with 18 arrests Wednesday after demonstrators splattered red paint on the company’s landmark sign and refused to leave. The...
No Azure for Apartheid: Microsoft Employees Stage Sit-In to Halt Israel Cloud Contracts
A sustained sit-in by dozens of Microsoft employees has transformed the company’s Redmond, Washington campus into a high-stakes standoff over cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits...