Microsoft Calls for Better Cloud Computing Laws
January 20th, 2010 admin

The Internet started it all off–the (theoretical) creation of a world without borders. There’s a problem, however: borders still remain. And those borders are inhabited by sovereign entities that dictate the rules for their respective domains. This creates another problem, for both consumers and producers: what rules are in force over a technology that has no regard for arbitrary geographic boundaries? Microsoft, in a move that protects it and the consumers it serves, has asked that current federal technology laws be updated, new ones implemented, and that international standards be devised , so that border-oblivious technologies will be protected. Microsoft’s push for…
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