A little more than a year before Microsoft’s systems crashed on Friday, creating global chaos in the banking, airline, and emergency service industries, the company pushed back against regulators investigating the risks of a handful of cloud services companies controlling the world’s technological infrastructure, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
Microsoft Pushed Back Against Regulators Before System Crash
“Regulators should carefully avoid any intervention” the company said in response to a federal probe of security and interoperability risks.
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