{"id":944357,"date":"2025-07-07T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944357"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:00:27","slug":"microsoft-shuts-down-operations-in-pakistan-after-25-years-ex-president-calls-it-a-troubling-sign-for-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/microsoft-shuts-down-operations-in-pakistan-after-25-years-ex-president-calls-it-a-troubling-sign-for-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shuts down operations in Pakistan after 25 years, ex-president calls it a \u2018troubling sign for country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially shut its operation in Pakistan after 25 years, according to the CEO who launched the tech giant\u2019s presence in the country in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which entered Pakistan on March 7, 2000, cited global restructuring and a shift to a cloud-based, partner-led model as reasons behind the closure.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Microsoft exit the country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially shut its operation in Pakistan after 25 years, according to the CEO who launched the tech giant\u2019s presence in the country in 2000. The company, which entered Pakistan on March 7, 2000, cited global restructuring and a shift to a cloud-based, partner-led model as reasons behind the closure. Why did Microsoft exit the country?<\/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-944357","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\/944357","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=944357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}