{"id":944355,"date":"2025-07-07T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944355"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:59:58","slug":"microsoft-pakistan-founding-head-cautions-more-than-a-corporate-exit-as-tech-giant-leaves-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/microsoft-pakistan-founding-head-cautions-more-than-a-corporate-exit-as-tech-giant-leaves-after-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Pakistan founding head cautions: \u2018More than a corporate exit\u2019 as tech giant leaves after 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Microsoft closed its Pakistan operations after 25 years, the tech giant&#8217;s founding head in the country had a sombre message regarding the country&#8217;s economic environment, where the company started a hope-filled mission years ago.<\/p>\n<p>While Microsoft announcing its Pakistan exit cited cited global restructuring and a shift to a cloud-based, partner-led model as the reason, various stakeholders termed on Friday as a \u201ctroubling sign\u201d for the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Microsoft closed its Pakistan operations after 25 years, the tech giant&#8217;s founding head in the country had a sombre message regarding the country&#8217;s economic environment, where the company started a hope-filled mission years ago. While Microsoft announcing its Pakistan exit cited cited global restructuring and a shift to a cloud-based, partner-led model as the reason, various stakeholders termed on Friday as a \u201ctroubling sign\u201d for the country&#8217;s economy.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944355","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=944355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}