Microsoft President Brad Smith acknowledges this, and the importance of the region for his employer in a blog post today, saying "our economic reliance on Europe has always run deep.

Tech giant Microsoft has committed that data from its European cloud customers will remain in Europe, governed by European laws. As per Reuters, local personnel will oversee operations, ensuring ...

Microsoft is making five digital commitments to Europe, including increasing its data center capacity by 40% over the next two years and expanding data center operations in 16 countries, Smith said.

Microsoft has reached an agreement with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), nearly two years after the European not-for-profit trade association filed an antitrust complaint ...

Microsoft has pledged to fight any U.S. government order to halt data center operations in Europe, as it sought to soothe concerns among European customers that trans-Atlantic tensions would lead ...

Microsoft agreed to pay €20 million, or about $21.7 million, to settle similar accusations about its cloud practices from an organization representing Amazon and several small European cloud ...

Last year, Microsoft appealed the €280.5 million fine it incurred for failing to provide interoperability protocols to rivals, as required in the landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust ruling.

The European Union took new legal steps against Microsoft Corp. Thursday to ensure better compliance with its 2004 antitrust ruling, threatening fines of up to Euros 2 million ($2.37 million) a ...