Microsoft CTO: IT's future is about more than just the cloud | The Industry Standard - InfoWorld

Excerpt from an interview with Barry Briggs, Microsoft IT CTO

Microsoft recently completed a project that encapsulates those three factors -- a master customer database, containing records for 100 million corporate customers and some 2 billion identities, Briggs said. "That's a big deal."

Outside factors like legal compliance spanning many countries globally make such efforts even more complex. In an effort to keep in line with the rules, Microsoft has a chief privacy officer for every line of its business, Briggs said. "We're fanatical about the privacy of our customers."

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