{"id":952593,"date":"2025-08-05T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952593"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:33:32","slug":"microsoft-blocks-nayara-former-army-officer-issues-wake-up-call-over-indias-total-reliance-on-foreign-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/05\/microsoft-blocks-nayara-former-army-officer-issues-wake-up-call-over-indias-total-reliance-on-foreign-operating-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Microsoft blocks Nayara&#8217;: Former Army officer issues wake-up call over India\u2019s total reliance on foreign operating systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unilateral decision by Microsoft to suspend software services to Nayara Energy highlights a significant strategic vulnerability in India\u2019s digital infrastructure. With the majority of Indian digital systems operating on software platforms owned and controlled by foreign entities\u2014primarily U.S. tech giants\u2014such incidents serve as a wake-up call. This dependency raises critical concerns about national sovereignty and operational continuity, especially in sensitive sectors like energy, defence, and communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unilateral decision by Microsoft to suspend software services to Nayara Energy highlights a significant strategic vulnerability in India\u2019s digital infrastructure. With the majority of Indian digital systems operating on software platforms owned and controlled by foreign entities\u2014primarily U.S. tech giants\u2014such incidents serve as a wake-up call. This dependency raises critical concerns about national sovereignty and operational continuity, especially in sensitive sectors like energy, defence, and communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952593","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}