Microsoft Cloud in France Gets $10 Billion from US Government!

[David Mills 4,734]

I just read a news story about Microsoft receiving a new $10 billion contract from the US government for building cloud computing services. The photo that accompanies the article shows a Microsoft building located in France. Since MSFS 2020 will be running off a Microsoft cloud computer and the sim is being developed in France, this huge inflow of money is definitely good news. I just hope they gave Lionel the entire $10 billion up front and in cash.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/microsoft-record-high-pentagon-contract

 

[Nedo68 533]

aha we will fly with teh pentagon online 😉

[Pastaiolo 1,686]

Edited October 28, 2019 by france89

[jmdriskell 178]

Let's wait until all the law suits are settled before we try to use this service. 

 

Jim Driskell

[HiFlyer 9,343]

1 hour ago, jmdriskell said:

Let's wait until all the law suits are settled before we try to use this service. 

 

Jim Driskell

Yup. Amazon might be feeling a certain sort of way about this.

For..... reasons.

[Evros 310]

Highly doubt that they will locate those critical defense infrastructures outside of US. Even less will they allow their resources to be diverted to entertainment.

Edited October 28, 2019 by Evros

[Krakin 5,737]

Only Lionel gets the money? Yes, I can get behind this!

[Greazer 1,320]

There you go, through some more millions at the simulator for VR, seasons and shaders.  And why not, rodents too.  Make MSFS great again.

Edited October 29, 2019 by Greazer

[Noooch 1,084]

I don't think MS servers will go down anytime soon, at least for the next 10 years.

Happy flying everyone !

[Superdelphinus 718]

Don’t ever change, Lionel. Even if you are now a multi-billionaire. 

[Jazznow 46]

Would be nice to not longer depend on bing maps but NSA satellite imagery 😄

[ChrisDa 41]

NSA's XKeyScore / StellarWind gets bigger !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

Chris.

 

[n4gix 4,947]

That is a nice photo of the new building in France, but there's nothing to link that building with the new cloud server they will be developing for the U.S. Government.

[G-RFRY 1,708]

You could look at this in two ways more investment in the cloud network around the world good for gaming (flight sim). or a few years from now someone at the top decides defence and corporate cloud infrastructure is the way to go gaming not important, sadly it`s happened before even Phil Spencer has people above him making the decisions. Only time will tell.

[Jim Young 2,356]

Uh, the US Govt signed a contract with Microsoft to provide JEDI Cloud Service - https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20700698/microsoft-pentagon-contract-jedi-cloud-amazon-details.  Doubt much will go directly to France.