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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Director Satya Nadella (L) returns to the stage after a preliminary recorded interview during the opening of Microsoft Conference in Seattle, Washington, May 19, 2025.
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Microsoft On Friday, they revised their practice to provide engineers in China no longer providing technical support for US defense customers using cloud services.
The company has implemented changes in the efforts to reduce national security and cybersecurity risks that arise from its cloud work with a major client. The announcement occurred a few days after the propublica published wide report Describing the Defense Department Defense on Microsoft software engineers in China.
“In response to the concern raised earlier this week, about US foreign engineers’ settings, Microsoft has changed to our US government’s support to make sure no engineering groups based in China Friday x Message.
The change affects the work of the Azure Cloud Services department Microsoft, which estimates analysts that now bring more than 25% of the company’s revenue. That makes a step larger than Google Cloud but less than Amazon Web -service. Microsoft receives “significant income from government contracts” according to its latest Quarterly income A statement, and more than half of $ 70 billion in revenue in the first quarter came from customers based in the US
In 2019, Microsoft won 10 billion dollars Defensive contract related to the cloud but the Pentagon is over cancel it In 2021 after the legal battle. In 2022 the department Gave cloud contracts A total of up to $ 9 billion in Google, Google, Oracle and Microsoft.
Propublica reports that the work of Chinese engineers Azure Microsoft controls “digital accompanies” in the US, which usually have less technical skills than employees running abroad. The report describes in detail how “digital support” can leave the United States vulnerable to cyberattacks from China.
Initially, Microsoft told Prapublica that employees and contractors are in charge of compliance with the US government’s rules.
“We still strive to provide the safest services for the US government, including working with our national security partners to evaluate and adjust our security protocols as needed,” the show wrote.
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