Electronic Frontier Foundation urges Cisco and Microsoft to stop enabling Chinese oppression

An Electronic Frontier Foundation opinion piece argues that Microsoft and Cisco are more interested in abetting China’s repressive regime than taking a stand for freedom. With Google abandoning the search market in China rather than submit to censorship, Microsoft has recently stepped into the void by agreeing with Baidu to provide Bing web search services [...]

Microsoft helping dissenting groups survive crackdowns by oppressive governments

Microsoft is providing software to advocacy groups, the media, and non-profits operating under oppressive governments to help them avoid allegations that they are installing pirated Microsoft software. -db The New York Times October 16, 2010 By Clifford J. Levy MOSCOW — Microsoft is vastly expanding its efforts to prevent governments from using software piracy inquiries [...]

Microsoft aggressive in competing with other vendors for open government market

Microsoft is using Sharepoint, Bing, SQL, and Azure to command a share of the traffic on open government while Google and Amazon are joining Microsoft in offering to host public data on their cloud services. -DB Information Week December 15, 2009 By J. Nicholas Hoover With the open government movement in full swing and the [...]

Major tech firms helping to advance open government

Adobe, Google and Microsoft are putting up both money and tech resources to help the Obama administration improve government transparency. -DB OMB Watch November 24, 2009 In addition to nonprofit organizations, educational groups, and individual advocates, corporations have recently begun to stake out positions in the ongoing open government dialogue. Among these private sector actors [...]