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  • Welcome To The New World Of Risk: Microsoft Cuts Off Services ToEnergy Company Without Notice

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@[email protected] to comp.misc on Wed Jul 30 06:03:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    From <https://www.cio.com/article/4030789/welcome-to-the-new-world-of-risk-microsoft-cuts-off-services-to-energy-company-without-notice.html>,
    a customer of Microsoft’s cloud found itself cut off from all services.
    So it is suing Microsoft because the latter

    ... imposed an “abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical
    services. Microsoft is currently restricting Nayara Energy’s
    access to its own data, proprietary tools, and products — despite
    these being acquired under fully paid-up licenses. This decision,
    based solely on Microsoft’s unilateral interpretation of recent
    European Union (EU) sanctions, sets a dangerous precedent for
    corporate overreach and raises serious concerns regarding its
    implications on India’s energy ecosystem.”

    Presumably the cutoff was not done through a court order, otherwise
    there would be no grounds to sue (but hey, what do I know). If one
    Government can demand such a thing, what’s to stop another one from
    doing the same?
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  • From mm0fmf@[email protected] to comp.misc on Wed Jul 30 16:19:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 30/07/2025 07:03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    From <https://www.cio.com/article/4030789/welcome-to-the-new-world-of-risk-microsoft-cuts-off-services-to-energy-company-without-notice.html>,
    a customer of Microsoft’s cloud found itself cut off from all services.
    So it is suing Microsoft because the latter

    ... imposed an “abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical
    services. Microsoft is currently restricting Nayara Energy’s
    access to its own data, proprietary tools, and products — despite
    these being acquired under fully paid-up licenses. This decision,
    based solely on Microsoft’s unilateral interpretation of recent
    European Union (EU) sanctions, sets a dangerous precedent for
    corporate overreach and raises serious concerns regarding its
    implications on India’s energy ecosystem.”

    Presumably the cutoff was not done through a court order, otherwise
    there would be no grounds to sue (but hey, what do I know). If one
    Government can demand such a thing, what’s to stop another one from
    doing the same?

    They've been restored. It was to do with EU sanctions against Russia and Russian backed companies like Nayara Energy.
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@[email protected] to comp.misc on Wed Jul 30 21:16:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:19:51 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    They've been restored.

    But the damage has been done. And if one Government can demand such a
    thing, what’s to stop another one doing the same?
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  • From mm0fmf@[email protected] to comp.misc on Thu Jul 31 08:52:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 30/07/2025 22:16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:19:51 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    They've been restored.

    But the damage has been done. And if one Government can demand such a
    thing, what’s to stop another one doing the same?

    The damage was done when bean counters got a hard-on for The Cloud. "No
    more expensive on-site servers and staff when The Cloud can handle our
    needs and scale infinitely" was music to their dumb MBA brains. So they
    punt all their critical infrastructure on to The Cloud. Or as we
    technical types call it: other people's computers. And this is one of
    the consequences, other people can hold you to ransom.

    And if it wasn't MS it could be any of the major cloud providers.



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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@[email protected] to comp.misc on Thu Jul 31 22:43:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:52:56 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    On 30/07/2025 22:16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:19:51 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    They've been restored.

    But the damage has been done. And if one Government can demand such a
    thing, what’s to stop another one doing the same?

    The damage was done when bean counters got a hard-on for The Cloud.

    So the fact that services were “restored” doesn’t do anything to fix that,
    does it?
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  • From mm0fmf@[email protected] to comp.misc on Fri Aug 1 07:20:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On 31/07/2025 23:43, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:52:56 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    On 30/07/2025 22:16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:19:51 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    They've been restored.

    But the damage has been done. And if one Government can demand such a
    thing, what’s to stop another one doing the same?

    The damage was done when bean counters got a hard-on for The Cloud.

    So the fact that services were “restored” doesn’t do anything to fix that,
    does it?

    Obviously not. Anyone with clue will be taking steps to ensure this
    cannot happen to their company.

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