{"id":927153,"date":"2025-05-01T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927153"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:53:39","slug":"microsofts-top-lawyers-commitment-to-europe-if-required-will-take-the-us-government-to-court-but-will-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/01\/microsofts-top-lawyers-commitment-to-europe-if-required-will-take-the-us-government-to-court-but-will-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s top lawyer&#8217;s commitment to Europe: If required, will take the US government to court but will not &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s top legal officer has pledged to sue the US government if necessary to safeguard European customers\u2019 access to its services, a report claims. Microsoft\u2019s president, Brad Smith, who is the company\u2019s vice-chair and top lawyer, reportedly made this comment after European leaders raised concerns when President Trump temporarily suspended military and intelligence support to Ukraine, prompting Microsoft to offer new \u201ccontinuity of access\u201d assurances. As per the report, the remarks come as Europe questions the U.S. president\u2019s commitment to the transatlantic security alliance and whether American technology could be restricted as part of broader negotiations with the bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s top legal officer has pledged to sue the US government if necessary to safeguard European customers\u2019 access to its services, a report claims. Microsoft\u2019s president, Brad Smith, who is the company\u2019s vice-chair and top lawyer, reportedly made this comment after European leaders raised concerns when President Trump temporarily suspended military and intelligence support to Ukraine, prompting Microsoft to offer new \u201ccontinuity of access\u201d assurances. As per the report, the remarks come as Europe questions the U.S. president\u2019s commitment to the transatlantic security alliance and whether American technology could be restricted as part of broader negotiations with the bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}