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Microsoft Corporation Earnings Preview: All Eyes On The Cloud
Overall, analysts are expecting a solid quarter as the PC market showed signs of stabilizing and the march toward cloud computing continues.
CIO survey finds Microsoft Azure will overtake Amazon AWS for Infrastructure as a Service
The market consists of Infrastructure as a Service (the underlying servers, storage and networks necessary for cloud computing) and Platform as a …
Microsoft Enables Azure Backups for Premium Storage
Businesses using Azure’s SSD-based cloud storage can now use Azure Backup to keep their enterprise cloud application data safe.
ACLU Seeks to Join Microsoft in ECPA Challenge
That antiquated law (passed decades before cloud computing existed) allows courts to impose prior restraints on speech about government …
ACLU wants a piece of the Microsoft v. U.S. data gag order lawsuit
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today asked a federal judge to let it join Microsoft in suing the U.S. government over authorities’ use of gag orders that prevent the technology firm from telling customers their data has been demanded, court filings showed.
“A basic promise of our Constitution is that the government must notify you at some point when it searches or seizes your private information,” said Alex Abdo, an ACLU senior staff attorney, in a statement Thursday. “The government has managed to circumvent this critical protection in the digital realm for decades, but Microsoft’s lawsuit offers the courts an opportunity to correct course.”
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Rackspace Brings Fanatical Support for Microsoft Azure to Europe
Rackspace is expanding its Fanatical Support for Microsoft Azure across its European regions, and is launching two new service levels, according to …
Google Cloud Chief Diane Greene: Here’s How We’ll Catch Amazon And Microsoft
Diane Greene is in the hot seat. The onetime cofounder of VMware, a pioneer in what’s now known as cloud computing, heads Google’s enterprise …
Unfazed by Economic Woes, Microsoft Boosts Cloud Computing in China
Unfazed by reports about China’s economic slowdown, Microsoft is stepping up its game with fresh efforts to boost its cloud computing business in the …
Microsoft sues U.S. government over data gag orders
Microsoft today asked a federal court to invalidate part of a 1986 law that it alleged has been abused by the government when authorities demand the company hand over customers’ data, including documents, emails and other information stored in the cloud.
In a lawsuit targeting the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Microsoft asked for a judgment that would declare unconstitutional a section of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a 30-year-old law that government agencies increasingly cite when forcing email, Internet and cloud storage service providers to hand over data to aid criminal investigations.
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