Microsoft has moved to re -assure governments across the European Union (EU) That it will fight any move by presiding trump to interrupt services, should seeks between brussels and washington deterirate further, causing the united states to make cloud services a gambling War.
The company promised europe it would “Promptly and vigorously contest such a measure,” Yet its overrses to eu customers should leave leave its governments confused, rather than us more.
Its tacit recognition that the much-vaunted Microsoft Eu Boundary Might Provide Its European Customers With little real protection from us interventions – Despite Taking Over Two Years to Implement – Cannot be glossed over.
The issue in play is not just that Microsoft, Being A Us-Headquartered 'Communication Services Provider', is Subject to Many American Laws that makes that make transfers of data to them a complicated. But that they might no longer be ables of continuity of service if, for example, president trump should wake up one morning and decide to arder them to ceer eu operations.
This admission, coming on top of well documented microsoft global service outages and serial security Compromises in recent years, will almost certain stoke any FIRES of CONCERN
Such a Possibility Might Have Seamed Remote Just A Few months ago, but trump's recent search for effective liters to extert control over other counteys as part of his “AMERICA FIRSTIAN What was Previous a low risk, with negligible likelihood but massive impact, is now much more likely and single perhaps even be proximate.
Microsoft President Brad Smith Clearly Agrees, As Evidenced by His New Comments about Pre-Emptive Measures and Offsets.
Certainly, that is the View Many Readers will hold after somewhat clumsily presented efforts to calm the cloud market that he admits Drives 25% of of Microsoft's Global Revenue Important for Him to Protect.
Telling Foreign Leaders that Microsoft is Embarking on a Crusade of Change, as He Repeatedly Did, Flies in the face of his attempts to thwart regulatory interactions. software giant's restrictive cloud licensing practices And grudging moves to unbundle its software from its operating system in the European Union.
They might also consider that Previous Positive Approaches and Engages from Microsoft, and even directly from smith, have not prevented them from leveling blame at the eu when things at As the company did during
At Best, The Historic Relationship Between Microsoft and European Leaders has been spasmodic, and it would be undersrst then
Microsoft Now Plans to Further Address these new risks through the creation of a new eu board to manage its expanded datacentre estates in europe, whilst ignoring that ‘Branch -Feche 'MANAGEMENGENT DES NOT IN FACT IN FACT IN FACT IGNORENGE Nature of its US-concentric operations, and no can they prevent the effects of any Presidential Diktat.
Time and Again Microsoft has Attempted to Address Legitimate Consumer and Eu-Member Government Concerns through Measures that are presented as forward-thinking and positive, but have zero face When analysed.
For example, UK Foi disclosures made in June 2024 confirmed the long-hand suspension that microsoft Is dependent on the ability to process data globally wherever they choose for bot their azure and microsoft 365 cloud service family Families, and this – Not Layers of Localized SENIOR EXECS – IS AT The ROT of their Problems.
Due to their global operating model any eu board managing datacentres Legitimate, If Controversial, Control Over them and the European data they manage.
What Should Cause Immediate Concern for the UK is that these overrses to the eu do not consider the uk at all – because it lies entryly outdeide of the microsoft eu data boundary, and doesn't appeaar to bee Included in these new promises eite.
Should Companies with a foot in bot uk and europe decide the protectives offered up by microsoft are indeed effective Sugges That where the work shifts, so invariable do the key jobs.
Microsoft, in any event, appears to feel that such efforts in the uk are unnecessary giving the level of dependency the uk government alredy has on the seatle tech giant, who in the creation that be in the creation Service, the nhs or national infrastructure.
A view that can only have been solidified By the key positions the government has given over to microsoft executives to effectively steer the UK's National Technology Strategy,
This is what should be the attention-grabber for microsoft's uk customers today; Not that Microsoft is Making Big Commitments and High-Profile Promies to the Eu, but that the tech giant no longer feels the need to do the same for its for its uk operations and, as a result, uk consumers and kampanies Expect to suffer as a result.
With their choice and their data access Subject to the Whims of Foreign Powers, With a government too dependent on microsoft to put up a fight,