[kevml]

I may be reading into things here but it sounds a lot like the reason for this is to gain business from the US Government. Limiting reach from governments such as China and Russia is already standard practice for most security/defense related functions of the government.

[nateburke]

Yes, and didn’t they also just have a fairly abrupt about-face in terms of doing business with ethically-questionable customers?

MSFT just recently won a 10B cloud deal from the DoD, perhaps the purse is still open there?